Dear Editor,I am Dr. Fang-Yu Lin from the Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai, China. I am writing to present to you a case of central retinal artery occlusion after routine glaucoma valve...Dear Editor,I am Dr. Fang-Yu Lin from the Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai, China. I am writing to present to you a case of central retinal artery occlusion after routine glaucoma valve implantation surgery with retrobulbar anesthesia. Retrobulbar anesthesia has been extensively applied in intraocular surgery for many years. It is generally considered a low risk procedure.展开更多
Functional studies have suggested the important role of early growth response I （EGR1） and Laminin a2- chain （LAMA,？.） in human eye development. Genetic studies have reported a significant association of the sing...Functional studies have suggested the important role of early growth response I （EGR1） and Laminin a2- chain （LAMA,？.） in human eye development. Genetic studies have reported a significant association of the single nu- cleotide polymorphism （SNP） in the LAMA2 gene with myopia. This study aimed to evaluate the association of the tagging SNPs （tSNPs） in the EGR1 and LAMA2 genes with high myopia in two independent Han Chinese populations. Four tSNPs （rs11743810 in the EGR1 gene; rs2571575, rs9321170, and rs1889891 in the LAMA2 gene） were se- lected, according to the HapMap database （http：//hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov）, and were genotyped using the ligase detection reaction （LDR） approach for 167 Hart Chinese nuclear families with extremely highly myopic offspring （〈-10.0 diopters） and an independent group with 485 extremely highly myopic cases （〈-10.0 diopters） and 499 con- trois. Direct sequencing was used to confirm the LDR results in twenty randomly selected subjects. Family-based association analysis was performed using the family-based association test （FBAT） software package （Version 1.5.5）. Population-based association analysis was performed using the Chi-square test. The association analysis power was estimated using online software （http：lldesign.cs.ucla.edu）. The FBAT demonstrated that all four tSNPs tested did not show association with high myopia （P〉0.05）. Haplotype analysis of tSNPs in the LAMA2 genes also did not show a significant association （P〉0.05）. Meanwhile, population-based association analysis also showed no significant asso- ciation results with high myopia （P〉0.05）. On the basis of our family- and population-based analyses for the Han Chinese population, we did not find positive association signals of the four SNPs in the LAMA2 and EGR1 genes with high myopia.展开更多
文摘Dear Editor,I am Dr. Fang-Yu Lin from the Department of Ophthalmology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai, China. I am writing to present to you a case of central retinal artery occlusion after routine glaucoma valve implantation surgery with retrobulbar anesthesia. Retrobulbar anesthesia has been extensively applied in intraocular surgery for many years. It is generally considered a low risk procedure.
基金Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY14H120003)the Qianjiang Talent Project of Zhejiang Province(No.2013R10040),China
文摘Functional studies have suggested the important role of early growth response I （EGR1） and Laminin a2- chain （LAMA,？.） in human eye development. Genetic studies have reported a significant association of the single nu- cleotide polymorphism （SNP） in the LAMA2 gene with myopia. This study aimed to evaluate the association of the tagging SNPs （tSNPs） in the EGR1 and LAMA2 genes with high myopia in two independent Han Chinese populations. Four tSNPs （rs11743810 in the EGR1 gene; rs2571575, rs9321170, and rs1889891 in the LAMA2 gene） were se- lected, according to the HapMap database （http：//hapmap.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov）, and were genotyped using the ligase detection reaction （LDR） approach for 167 Hart Chinese nuclear families with extremely highly myopic offspring （〈-10.0 diopters） and an independent group with 485 extremely highly myopic cases （〈-10.0 diopters） and 499 con- trois. Direct sequencing was used to confirm the LDR results in twenty randomly selected subjects. Family-based association analysis was performed using the family-based association test （FBAT） software package （Version 1.5.5）. Population-based association analysis was performed using the Chi-square test. The association analysis power was estimated using online software （http：lldesign.cs.ucla.edu）. The FBAT demonstrated that all four tSNPs tested did not show association with high myopia （P〉0.05）. Haplotype analysis of tSNPs in the LAMA2 genes also did not show a significant association （P〉0.05）. Meanwhile, population-based association analysis also showed no significant asso- ciation results with high myopia （P〉0.05）. On the basis of our family- and population-based analyses for the Han Chinese population, we did not find positive association signals of the four SNPs in the LAMA2 and EGR1 genes with high myopia.
