Uncovering the aetiology of myopia through identification of refraction and ocular biometric genes

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/529912

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Myopia or short-sightedness affects 1 in 4 people in the Western world and is a major source of uncorrected vision loss, as well as blindness. This proposal aims to identify genes in myopia using a new technique called genome wide association. We will apply this technique to individuals collected through a population based Eye study to allow us to identify these genes. The outcomes of this work will allow us to identify high risk individuals as well as develop new measures to prevent myopia.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $697,786.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Opthalmology And Vision Science

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

disease aetiology | early diagnosis | genetic epidemiology | genetic predisposition | myopia | polygenic disease | refractive error

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