Genome-wide association meta-analysis highlights light-induced signaling as a driver for refractive error.
Milly S Tedja,
Robert Wojciechowski,
Pirro G Hysi,
Nicholas Eriksson,
Nicholas A Furlotte,
Virginie JM Verhoeven,
Adriana I Iglesias,
Magda A Meester-Smoor,
Stuart W Tompson,
Qiao Fan,
Anthony P Khawaja,
Ching-Yu Cheng,
René Höhn,
Kenji Yamashiro,
Adam Wenocur,
Clare Grazal,
Toomas Haller,
Andres Metspalu,
Juho Wedenoja,
Jost B Jonas,
Ya Xing Wang,
Jing Xie,
Paul Mitchell,
Paul J Foster,
Barbara EK Klein,
Ronald Klein,
Andrew D Paterson,
S Mohsen Hosseini,
Rupal L Shah,
Cathy Williams,
Yik Ying Teo,
Yih Chung Tham,
Preeti Gupta,
Wanting Zhao,
Yuan Shi,
Woei-Yuh Saw,
E-Shyong Tai,
Xue Ling Sim,
Jennifer E Huffman,
Ozren Polašek,
Caroline Hayward,
Goran Bencic,
Igor Rudan,
James F Wilson,
CREAM Consortium,
23andMe Research Team,
UK Biobank Eye and Vision Consortium,
Peter K Joshi,
Akitaka Tsujikawa,
Fumihiko Matsuda,
Kristina N Whisenhunt,
Tanja Zeller,
Peter J van der Spek,
Roxanna Haak,
Hanne Meijers-Heijboer,
Elisabeth M van Leeuwen,
Sudha K Iyengar,
Jonathan H Lass,
Albert Hofman,
Fernando Rivadeneira,
André G Uitterlinden,
Johannes R Vingerling,
Terho Lehtimäki,
Olli T Raitakari,
Ginevra Biino,
Maria Pina Concas,
Tae-Hwi Schwantes-An,
Robert P Igo,
Gabriel Cuellar-Partida,
Nicholas G Martin,
Jamie E Craig,
Puya Gharahkhani,
Katie M Williams,
Abhishek Nag,
Jugnoo S Rahi,
Phillippa M Cumberland,
Cécile Delcourt,
Céline Bellenguez,
Janina S Ried,
Arthur A Bergen,
Thomas Meitinger,
Christian Gieger,
Tien Yin Wong,
Alex W Hewitt,
David A Mackey,
Claire L Simpson,
Norbert Pfeiffer,
Olavi Pärssinen,
Paul N Baird,
Veronique Vitart,
Najaf Amin,
Cornelia M van Duijn,
Joan E Bailey-Wilson,
Terri L Young,
Seang-Mei Saw,
Dwight Stambolian,
Stuart MacGregor,
Jeremy A Guggenheim,
Joyce Y Tung,
Christopher J Hammond,
Caroline CW Klaver
Jul 29, 2019
Refractive errors, including myopia, are the most frequent eye disorders worldwide and an increasingly common cause of blindness. This genome-wide association meta-analysis in 160,420 participants and replication in 95,505...