RealFeedApp Researchers improve genetic test for glaucoma
Researchers improved a polygenic risk score test using data from 6 million people to detect high-risk individuals for open-angle glaucoma.
- Field
- medicine and diagnostics
- What they did
- Scientists improved a genetic test for glaucoma by using data from six million people instead of eight thousand, allowing them to identify a risk factor up to 10 times higher than average.
- Why it matters
- This will enable early treatment to preserve vision before it is lost irreversibly.
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