Oftalmologia

Major Progress in Fuchs's Corneal Dystrophy

The expected outcomes of the almost 800 genomewide association studies of common biomedical traits that have been reported so far have rarely been made explicit but might include the identification of statistically robust genetic associations, the elucidation of the heritable nature of the traits, and some utility to biology or medicine, such as mechanistic dissection or clinical prediction of disease.
Approfondisci

 http://www.nejm.org/doi/abs/10.1056/NEJMe1007495?ai=rv&af=R...

New England Journal of Medicine