Nature Medicine
3, 1196 - 1197 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm1197-1196
The ABCs of AMDGabriel H. Travis1
& Jean Bennett2
1Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75235, USA
2F.M. Kirby Center for Molecular Ophthalmology, Scheie Eye Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA The identification of mutations causing age-related macular degeneration paves the way for earlier diagnoses and studies of pathogenic mechanisms.
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