Patients with certain genetic variants are at greater risk for AMD progression

MIAMI — Age, phenotype characteristics and genetic variants can put patients at greater risk for progression of age-related macular degeneration.“We want to develop drugs, and our future studies should be very concentrated on the transition from intermediate into late AMD and to find biomarkers,” Carel B. Hoyng, MD, said at Angiogenesis, Exudation, and Degeneration 2017.

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