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SUBMITTER: Shihadeh W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6192963 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Shihadeh Wisam W Khabour Omar O Khalil Mohammed Bilal MB Al-Dabbagh Alaa A Al-Hashimi Mustafa M
International journal of ophthalmology 20181018 10
<h4>Aim</h4>To investigate the association between single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the <i>LOXL1</i> gene with exfoliation syndrome/glaucoma (XFS/XFG) among Jordanians.<h4>Methods</h4>Sixty-one patients with XFS/XFG and 59 healthy control individuals were recruited in the study. Patients were diagnosed with XFS/XFG using standard clinical examination techniques. The exonic rs1048661 SNP and the intronic rs2165241 SNP in <i>LOXL1</i> gene were genotyped using sequencing technique. Allele ...[more]