Genome-wide association study identifies two susceptibility loci for exudative age-related macular degeneration in the Japanese population

Nature Genetics

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1001-1005

  Arakawa, Satoshi ^a,b   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Ashikawa, Kyota ^a   Hosono, Naoya ^a   Aoi, Tomomi ^a   Yasuda, Miho ^b   Oshima, Yuji ^b   Yoshida, Shigeo ^b   Enaida, Hiroshi ^b   Tsuchihashi, Takashi ^c   Mori, Keisuke ^c   Honda, Shigeru ^c   Negi, Akira ^d   Arakawa, Akira ^e   Kadonosono, Kazuaki ^e   Kiyohara, Yutaka ^b   Kamatani, Naoyuki ^a   Nakamura, Yusuke ^f   Ishibashi, Tatsuro ^b   Kubo, Michiaki ^a  

^a RIKEN YOKOHAMA INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAITAMA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^e YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 8P; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION;

AGE FACTORS; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 4; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 8; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; ODDS RATIO; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RISK FACTORS; WET MACULAR DEGENERATION;

EID: 80053385445     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: 15461718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ng.938     Document Type: Article

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