An international group of researchers identified 44 new gene loci and confirmed 83 previously reported loci linked to glaucoma, according to a press release from Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
The study is an international effort including researchers from Australia, the U.K., the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania and the U.S., the release said. The largest genome-wide association study of glaucoma compared the genes of 34,179 subjects with glaucoma and 349,321 control subjects, the release said.
The study is the first of its kind

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An international group of researchers identified 44 new gene loci and confirmed 83 previously reported loci linked to glaucoma, according to a press release from Massachusetts Eye and Ear.
The study is an international effort including researchers from Australia, the U.K., the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Singapore, Japan, Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania and the U.S., the release said. The largest genome-wide association study of glaucoma compared the genes of 34,179 subjects with glaucoma and 349,321 control subjects, the release said.
The study is the first of its kind

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