Additional evidence to support the role of a common variant near the complement factor i gene in susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 634-635

  Kondo, Naoshi ^a,b   Bessho, Hiroaki ^a   Honda, Shigeru ^a   Negi, Akira ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENT FACTOR I;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; COMPLEMENT FACTOR I; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 77952675994     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.243     Document Type: Letter

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