Boston team wins grant to study genes and glaucoma
Boston researchers are among six teams across the country studying genetic factors that influence the risk for stroke, glaucoma, high blood pressure, prostate cancer, and other common disorders.
The Genes, Environment and Health Initiative of the National Institutes of Health yesterday awarded a total of $5.5 million in two-year grants to find genetic variants underlying the conditions. Information from the genome-wide association studies will reside in the database of Genotypes and Phenotypes at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, part of the National Library of Medicine at NIH.
Dr. Louis Pasquale of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary and Harvard Medical School will lead a group studying glaucoma, an age-related eye disease that leads to blindness. He and co-principal investigator Dr. Janey Wiggs are working with David Hunter of the Harvard School of Public Health, Jae Hee Kang of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Jonathan Haines of Vanderbilt School of Medicine. Their grant is $850,000.
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