A 32 kb critical region excluding Y402H in CFH mediates risk for age-related macular degeneration.

A 32 kb critical region excluding Y402H in CFH mediates risk for age-related macular degeneration.

Complement factor H shows very strong association with Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD), and recent data suggest that multiple causal variants are associated with disease. To refine the location of the disease associated variants, we characterized in detail the structural variation at CFH and...

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Main Authors: Theru A Sivakumaran, Robert P Igo, Jeffrey M Kidd, Andy Itsara, Laura J Kopplin, Wei Chen, Stephanie A Hagstrom, Neal S Peachey, Peter J Francis, Michael L Klein, Emily Y Chew, Vedam L Ramprasad, Wan-Ting Tay, Paul Mitchell, Mark Seielstad, Dwight E Stambolian, Albert O Edwards, Kristine E Lee, Dmitry V Leontiev, Gyungah Jun, Yang Wang, Liping Tian, Feiyou Qiu, Alice K Henning, Thomas LaFramboise, Parveen Sen, Manoharan Aarthi, Ronnie George, Rajiv Raman, Manmath Kumar Das, Lingam Vijaya, Govindasamy Kumaramanickavel, Tien Y Wong, Anand Swaroop, Goncalo R Abecasis, Ronald Klein, Barbara E K Klein, Deborah A Nickerson, Evan E Eichler, Sudha K Iyengar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3192039?pdf=render

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