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Identified Genetic Interaction Offers Possible New Target for Glaucoma Therapy

September 10, 2015
Genetics Glaucoma
Basic Research
Grantee

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have elucidated a genetic interaction that may prove key to the development and progression of glaucoma, a blinding neurodegenerative disease that affects tens of millions of people worldwide and is a leading cause of irreversible blindness.