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A Clearer View of Macular Degeneration Genes tied to age-related macular degeneration confirm the notion that inflammation helps destroy the central area of the retina in this vision disorder More than 10 million people
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Document Date: 2006-08-21 14:03:00


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Nature Regensburg / Boston / Iowa City / Bethesda / /

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AMD / /

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Germany / United States / /

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University of Iowa / NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE / Columbia University / University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center / National Cancer Institute / University of Pittsburgh School / Duke University Medical Center / University of California / University School / /

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protein product / gene-hunting tools / /

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complex disease / local inflammation / tissue-damaging inflammation / age-related macular degeneration / blindness / Chlamydia infection / disease / hereditary eye diseases / tough disease / stroke / inflammatory component / early developing diseases / heart attack / infection / eye disease / inflammation / /

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The turning point / /

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Harvard Medical School / National Cancer Institute / Duke University Medical Center in Durham / NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE / Columbia University / Boston University School of Medicine / CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF MACULAR DEGENERATION / University of California / Santa Barbara / Yale University School of Medicine / University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas / National Academy of Sciences / University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine / the University of Iowa in Iowa / /

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Still / Margaret Pericak-Vance / Don Anderson / Michael Gorin / Bernhard Weber / Albert Edwards / Lindsay Farrer / Bert Gold / Joan Miller / Lincoln Johnson / Gregory Hageman / Rando Allikmets / Michael Dean / DON H. ANDERSON / Robert Mullins / Josephine Hoh / JEAN MARX / /

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Maryland / Pennsylvania / North Carolina / California / Iowa / /

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American Journal of Human Genetics / the American Journal / Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences / /

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human genome / /

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