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Nature Genetics 38, 1049–1054 (1 September 2006) | doi:10.1038/ng1871

CFH haplotypes without the Y402H coding variant show strong association with susceptibility to age-related macular degeneration

Mingyao Li , Pelin Atmaca-Sonmez , Mohammad Othman , Kari E H Branham , Ritu Khanna , Michael S Wade , Yun Li , Liming Liang , Sepideh Zareparsi , Anand Swaroop & Gon|[ccedil]|alo R Abecasis

In developed countries, age-related macular degeneration is a common cause of blindness in the elderly. A common polymorphism, encoding the sequence variation Y402H in complement factor H (CFH), has been strongly associated with disease susceptibility.