🏥RIKEN identifies new seven gene regions related to open angle and glaucoma
Abstract
Professor Toruichiro Kubotani of Statistical Analysis Research Team, RIKEN Center for Integrated Biomedical Sciences Research Center RIKEN, Professor Yoshihiro Akiyama Research Associate, Research Associate Yoshihiro Shiga, Professor Toru Nakazawa of Tohoku University Medical School Department of Ophthalmology , Associate Professor Nishiguchi Koji et al. * Carried out Asia’s largest genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) on open-angle glaucoma, which is the main blindness cause of the Japanese, and seven sites related to onset We identified the susceptibility gene region.
This research was published online (February 14, date of February 14, Japan time) prior to publication of the UK science magazine “Human Molecular Genetics”.
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