Primary open-angle glaucoma

RN Weinreb, CKS Leung, JG Crowston… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Glaucoma is an optic neuropathy that is characterized by the progressive degeneration of
the optic nerve, leading to visual impairment. Glaucoma is the main cause of irreversible …

Cellular stress signaling and the unfolded protein response in retinal degeneration: mechanisms and therapeutic implications

T McLaughlin, A Medina, J Perkins, M Yera… - Molecular …, 2022 - Springer
Background The retina, as part of the central nervous system (CNS) with limited capacity for
self-reparation and regeneration in mammals, is under cumulative environmental stress due …

Primary open-angle glaucoma preferred practice pattern®

SJ Gedde, K Vinod, MM Wright, KW Muir, JT Lind… - Ophthalmology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Primary open angle glaucoma (POAG) is a chronic, progressive ocular disease
causing loss of the optic nerve rim and retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) with associated …

[PDF][PDF] Primary open-angle glaucoma preferred practice pattern® guidelines

BE Prum, LF Rosenberg, SJ Gedde, SL Mansberger… - …, 2016 - academia.edu
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a chronic, progressive optic neuropathy in adults
in which there is a characteristic acquired atrophy of the optic nerve and loss of retinal …

An ER translocon for multi-pass membrane protein biogenesis

PT McGilvray, SA Anghel, A Sundaram, F Zhong… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
Membrane proteins with multiple transmembrane domains play critical roles in cell
physiology, but little is known about the machinery coordinating their biogenesis at the …

[HTML][HTML] Repeat polymorphisms underlie top genetic risk loci for glaucoma and colorectal cancer

RE Mukamel, RE Handsaker, MA Sherman, AR Barton… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Many regions in the human genome vary in length among individuals due to variable
numbers of tandem repeats (VNTRs). To assess the phenotypic impact of VNTRs genome …

Genome-wide association analysis identifies TXNRD2, ATXN2 and FOXC1 as susceptibility loci for primary open-angle glaucoma

JNC Bailey, SJ Loomis, JH Kang, RR Allingham… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of blindness worldwide. To
identify new susceptibility loci, we performed meta-analysis on genome-wide association …

Genetic variants at the 9p21 locus contribute to atherosclerosis through modulation of ANRIL and CDKN2A/B

A Congrains, K Kamide, R Oguro, O Yasuda, K Miyata… - Atherosclerosis, 2012 - Elsevier
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified genetic variants contributing to
the risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD) at the chromosome 9p21 locus. The CVD …

Genome-wide association analyses identify multiple loci associated with central corneal thickness and keratoconus

Y Lu, V Vitart, KP Burdon, CC Khor, Y Bykhovskaya… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Central corneal thickness (CCT) is associated with eye conditions including keratoconus
and glaucoma. We performed a meta-analysis on> 20,000 individuals in European and …

Ophthalmic drug discovery: novel targets and mechanisms for retinal diseases and glaucoma

K Zhang, L Zhang, RN Weinreb - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2012 - nature.com
Blindness affects 60 million people worldwide. The leading causes of irreversible blindness
include age-related macular degeneration, retinal vascular diseases and glaucoma. The …