Genetic association study of exfoliation syndrome identifies a protective rare variant at LOXL1 and five new susceptibility loci

• Main Authors: Aung T., Ozaki M., Lee M., Schlötzer-Schrehardt U., Thorleifsson G., Mizoguchi T., Igo R., Haripriya A., Williams S., Astakhov Y., Orr A., Burdon K., Nakano S., Mori K., Abu-Amero K., Hauser M., Li Z., Prakadeeswari G., Bailey J., Cherecheanu A., Kang J., Nelson S., Hayashi K., Manabe S., Kazama S., Zarnowski T., Inoue K., Irkec M., Coca-Prados M., Sugiyama K., Järvelä I., Schlottmann P., Lerner S., Lamari H., Nilgün Y., Bikbov M., Park K., Cha S., Yamashiro K., Zenteno J., Jonas J., Kumar R., Perera S., Chan A., Kobakhidze N., George R., Vijaya L., Do T., Edward D., De Juan Marcos L., Pakravan M., Moghimi S., Ideta R., Bach-Holm D., Kappelgaard P., Wirostko B., Thomas S., Gaston D., Bedard K., Greer W., Yang Z., Chen X., Huang L., Sang J., Jia H., Jia L., Qiao C., Zhang H., Liu X., Zhao B., Wang Y., Xu L., Leruez S., Reynier P., Chichua G., Tabagari S.
• Format: Journal
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85021706287&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/40352
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© 2017 Nature America, Inc., part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is the most common known risk factor for secondary glaucoma and a major cause of blindness worldwide. Variants in two genes, LOXL1 and CACNA1A, have previously been associated with XFS. To further e...