Patients with genetic risk for different glaucoma subtypes had an associated risk for different visual field defects, according to a study.
In a presentation at the American Glaucoma Society meeting, Sayuri Sekimitsu said that primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a heritable disease, but the genetics are not well understood.
Sekimitsu and colleagues performed archetypal analysis on 263,707 visual fields from 34,331 patients to identify the visual field archetypes associated with genetic risk for POAG and its subtypes, high-tension glaucoma and normal-tension glaucoma.
The data were used to