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GENETICS: First Gene for Severe Dry Macular Degeneration
Jocelyn Kaiser
This week, researchers report the first genetic variant linked to slightly higher risk for severe "dry" age-related macular degeneration, one of the two advanced forms of the disease that robs tens of millions of elderly people of their vision.