• Ancestry of the Timorese: Age-related macular degeneration associated genotype and allele sharing among human populations from throughout the world 

      Morrison, M. A.; Magalhaes, T. R.; Ramke, J.; Smith, S. E.; Ennis, S.; Simpson, C. L.; Portas, L.; Murgia, F.; Ahn, J.; Dardenne, C.; Mayne, K.; Robinson, R.; Morgan, D. J.; Brian, G.; Lee, L.; Woo, S. J.; Zacharaki, F.; Tsironi, E. E.; Miller, J. W.; Kim, I. K.; Park, K. H.; Bailey-Wilson, J. E.; Farrer, L. A.; Stambolian, D.; DeAngelis, M. M. (2015)
      We observed that the third leading cause of blindness in the world, age-related macular degeneration (AMD), occurs at a very low documented frequency in a population-based cohort from Timor-Leste. Thus, we determined a ...
    • Rare and common variants in extracellular matrix gene Fibrillin 2 (FBN2) are associated with macular degeneration 

      Ratnapriya, R.; Zhan, X.; Fariss, R. N.; Branham, K. E.; Zipprer, D.; Chakarova, C. F.; Sergeev, Y. V.; Campos, M. M.; Othman, M.; Friedman, J. S.; Maminishkis, A.; Waseem, N. H.; Brooks, M.; Rajasimha, H. K.; Edwards, A. O.; Lotery, A.; Klein, B. E.; Truitt, B. J.; Li, B.; Schaumberg, D. A.; Morgan, D. J.; Morrison, M. A.; Souied, E.; Tsironi, E. E.; Grassmann, F.; Fishman, G. A.; Silvestri, G.; Scholl, H. P. N.; Kim, I. K.; Ramke, J.; Tuo, J.; Merriam, J. E.; Merriam, J. C.; Park, K. H.; Olson, L. M.; Farrer, L. A.; Johnson, M. P.; Peachey, N. S.; Lathrop, M.; Baron, R. V.; Igo, R. P.; Klein, R.; Hagstrom, S. A.; Kamatani, Y.; Martin, T. M.; Jiang, Y.; Conley, Y.; Sahel, J. A.; Zack, D. J.; Chan, C. C.; Pericak-Vance, M. A.; Jacobson, S. G.; Gorin, M. B.; Klein, M. L.; Allikmets, R.; Iyengar, S. K.; Weber, B. H.; Haines, J. L.; Léveillard, T.; Deangelis, M. M.; Stambolian, D.; Weeks, D. E.; Bhattacharya, S. E.; Chew, E. Y.; Heckenlively, J. R.; Abecasis, G. R.; Swaroop, A. (2014)
      Neurodegenerative diseases affecting the macula constitute amajor cause of incurable vision loss and exhibit considerable clinical and genetic heterogeneity, from early-onset monogenic disease to multifactorial lateonset ...