Age-related macular degeneration – Genetics Home Reference

A Variant of the HTRA1 Gene Increases Susceptibility to Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Zhenglin Yang1,2,3,*,
Nicola J. Camp4,*,
Hui Sun5,
Zongzhong Tong1,2,
Daniel Gibbs1,2,
D. Joshua Cameron1,2,
Haoyu Chen1,2,
Yu Zhao1,2,
Erik Pearson1,2,
Xi Li1,2,
Jeremy Chien6,
Andrew DeWan7,
Jennifer Harmon1,2,
Paul S. Bernstein1,
Viji Shridhar6,
Norman A. Zabriskie1,
Josephine Hoh7,
Kimberly Howes1,
Kang Zhang1,2,†

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/314/5801/992

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Age-related macular degeneration results in blindness, and one major locus (HTRAX) accounts for approximately one-half of genetic cases. “}}
Should be HTRA1

http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/condition/age-related-macular-degeneration

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