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Nature Genetics 40, 820–821 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/ng0708-820

Bringing age-related macular degeneration into focus

Rando Allikmets & Michael Dean

Genetic studies of AMD stand out from those on other complex disorders in a field notorious for competitiveness and controversy. Since the identification of ABCA4 (ABCR) as the first AMD-associated gene in 1997 (ref.