Journal article
Genome-wide association analyses identify three new susceptibility loci for primary angle closure glaucoma
Eranga N Vithana, Chiea-Chuen Khor, Chunyan Qiao, Monisha E Nongpiur, Ronnie George, Li-Jia Chen, Do Tan, Khaled K Abu-Amero, Chor Kai Huang, Sancy Low, Liza-Sharmini A Tajudin, Shamira A Perera, Ching-Yu Cheng, Liang Xu, Hongyan Jia, Ching-Lin Ho, Kar Seng Sim, Ren-Yi Wu, Clement CY Tham, Paul TK Chew Show all
NATURE GENETICS | NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP | Published : 2012
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2390
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Awarded by National Medical Research Council, Singapore
Awarded by Biomedical Research Council, Singapore
Awarded by Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation
Awarded by Key Project of the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation
Awarded by Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors thank all individuals with PACG and controls who have participated in this genetic study. We thank the following for contribution of cases and controls: J. Chua, D. Goh, R. Husain, N. Amerasinghe and A. Narayanaswamy of the Singapore National Eye Centre/Singapore Eye Research Institute; L.H. Thean, C. Aquino, C. Sng and A. Tan of the National University Hospital, Singapore; B.-A. Lim and L. Yip of Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore; and Y. Liang, S. Li, X. Duan, F. Wang, X. Yang, Q. Zhou and X. Yang of the Handan Eye Study, China. The authors would also like to thank C. Chakarova, P. Ostergaard, S. Jeffery, H.J. Cordell, P.T. Khaw, D.F. Garway-Heath, A.C. Viswanathan, W.-Y. Meah, S. Chen, D. Venkataraman, L.-W. Koh, X.Y. Ng, H.-B. Toh, K.-K. Heng and X.Y. Chen for administrative, technical and genotyping support. This work was supported by grants from the National Medical Research Council, Singapore (NMRC/TCR/002-SERI/2008 (R626/47/2008TCR), CSA R613/34/2008, NMRC 0796/2003 and STaR/0003/2008), the National Research Foundation of Singapore, the Biomedical Research Council, Singapore (BMRC 09/1/35/19/616 and 08/1/35/19/550), Genome Institute of Singapore Intramural funding, the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (7102036), the Key Project of the Beijing Municipal Natural Science Foundation (7081001) and the Key Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81030016).