A variant of mitochondrial protein LOC387715/ARMS2, not HTRA1, is strongly associated with age-related macular degeneration.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on September 20, 2007

Authors

Atsuhiro Kanda1, Wei Chen, Mohammad Othman, Kari E H Branham, Matthew Brooks, Ritu Khanna, Shirley He, Robert Lyons, Gonçalo R Abecasis, Anand Swaroop

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1: Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA.

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