Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

A large multi-ethnic genome-wide association study identifies novel genetic loci for intraocular pressure

  • Hélène Choquet,
  • Khanh K. Thai,
  • Jie Yin,
  • Thomas J. Hoffmann,
  • Mark N. Kvale,
  • Yambazi Banda,
  • Catherine Schaefer,
  • Neil Risch,
  • K. Saidas Nair,
  • Ronald Melles,
  • Eric Jorgenson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01913-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Intraocular pressure (IOP) is a major risk factor for glaucoma. Here, Choquet and co-authors perform a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study of repeat IOP measurements in 69,756 individuals and identify 40 novel loci, 36 of which show directionally consistent effects in glaucoma.