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| Author(s): |
Bibiana Amelia Cosim dos Santos
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Ciências Médicas |
| Defense date: | 2012-11-23 |
| Examining board members: |
José Paulo Cabral de Vasconcellos;
Niro Kasahara;
Edi Lúcia Sartorato
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| Advisor: | Mônica Barbosa de Melo; José Paulo Cabral de Vasconcellos |
| Abstract | |
Primary open-angle glaucoma is a neurodegenerative disease. Clinical features include progressive damage of the optic disc with corresponding visual field loss. Several risk factors are associated with installation and development, the main is a increased of intraocular pressure (IOP). Although a disease of complex inheritance, it was possible, through molecular biology, identify four genes associated with this form of glaucoma through linkage studies in families with this disease. The first was the MYOC gene, described in 1997, followed by the OPTN genes, WDR36 and NTF4, identified in 2002, 2005 and 2009, respectively. There are 14 other loci already described in POAG families with autosomal dominant, whose genes associated with glaucoma have not yet been identified. Thus, through microsatellite markers - chosen from the human genetic map Généthon will evaluate candidate loci (GLC1A and GLC1J - GLC1N) associated with primary open-angle glaucoma in two informative families carriers from POAG. Simultaneously, will be performed a linkage analysis in these same families through "microarrrays" of "single nucleotide polymorphisms" (SNPs) using the GeneChip Mapping 10K 2.0 ®. In the first approach through microsatellites were evaluated 33 individuals of Family 1 and 18 individuals of Family 2 while the analysis through SNPs were investigated in 19 member of family 1 and 11 members of family 2. There was no linkage of investigated loci: GLC1A, GLC1J - GLC1N in both families with POAG. However, in linkage analysis through SNPs suggested possible candidate regions associated with POAG (lod score greater than two) in the chromosome 5q31.2 - 2p22.3 and 31.3 - 23.1 (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 09/03508-0 - Identification of genes associated with primary open-angle glaucoma |
| Grantee: | Bibiana Amelia Cosim dos Santos |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |