Genome-wide meta-analyses of multiancestry cohorts identify multiple new susceptibility loci for refractive error and myopia

Virginie J M Verhoeven, Pirro G Hysi, Robert Wojciechowski, Qiao Fan, Jeremy A Guggenheim, René Höhn, Stuart MacGregor, Alex W Hewitt, Abhishek Nag, Ching-Yu Cheng, Ekaterina Yonova-Doing, Xin Zhou, M Kamran Ikram, Gabriëlle H S Buitendijk, George McMahon, John P Kemp, Beate St Pourcain, Claire L Simpson, Kari-Matti Mäkelä, Terho LehtimäkiMika Kähönen, Andrew D Paterson, S Mohsen Hosseini, Hoi Suen Wong, Liang Xu, Jost B Jonas, Olavi Pärssinen, Juho Wedenoja, Shea Ping Yip, Daniel W H Ho, Chi Pui Pang, Li Jia Chen, Kathryn P Burdon, Jamie E Craig, Barbara E K Klein, Ronald Klein, Toomas Haller, Andres Metspalu, Chiea-Chuen Khor, E-Shyong Tai, Tin Aung, Eranga Vithana, Wan-Ting Tay, Veluchamy A Barathi, Peng Chen, Ruoying Li, Jiemin Liao, Yingfeng Zheng, Rick T Ong, Ioana Cotlarciuc, Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM)

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)314-8
Number of pages5
JournalNature Genetics
Volume45
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2013

Keywords

  • Alcohol Oxidoreductases
  • Asian Continental Ancestry Group
  • Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2
  • European Continental Ancestry Group
  • Genetic Predisposition to Disease
  • Genome-Wide Association Study
  • Homeodomain Proteins
  • Humans
  • KCNQ Potassium Channels
  • Laminin
  • Myopia
  • Receptors, AMPA
  • Refractive Errors
  • Risk Factors
  • Serine Proteases
  • Trans-Activators

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