APLP2 Regulates Refractive Error and Myopia Development in Mice and Humans.

Myopia is the most common vision disorder and the leading cause of visual impairment worldwide. However, gene variants identified to date explain less than 10% of the variance in refractive error, leaving the majority of heritability unexplained ("missing heritability"). Previously, we rep...

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Main Authors: Andrei V Tkatchenko, Tatiana V Tkatchenko, Jeremy A Guggenheim, Virginie J M Verhoeven, Pirro G Hysi, Robert Wojciechowski, Pawan Kumar Singh, Ashok Kumar, Gopal Thinakaran, Consortium for Refractive Error and Myopia (CREAM), Cathy Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-08-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4551475?pdf=render