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SUBMITTER: Saglar E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4067653 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Saglar Emel E Bozkurt Banu B Irkec Murat M
International journal of ophthalmology 20140618 3
<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate the association between apolipoprotein E (APOE) -219 T>G promoter polymorphism and primary open angle glaucoma (POAG).<h4>Methods</h4>Patients and healthy subjects were genotyped with polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP). Genotype/allele frequencies were compared between 122 healthy subjects and in 75 POAG patients using Chi-square test.<h4>Results</h4>Although the frequency of APOE -219 GG genotype was higher in POAG group (13. ...[more]