Investigation of ARMS2 and CFH Polymorphisms Associated with Age-Related Macular Degeneration in Alzheimer’s Disease Patients. A Greek Cohort Study

Kroupis C
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Kroupis C: Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, Attikon University General Hospital, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Chaidari, Greece

Biomedical Journal of Scientific & Technical Research, 2023, vol. 49, issue 5, 40986-40992

Abstract: Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a degenerative eye disease leading to significant loss of central vision. A strong association with the disease has been identified worldwide for two common coding single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): A69S (rs10490924) of the ARMS2 gene involved in oxidative stress-dependent damage to the retinal photoreceptors and Y402H (rs1061170) of the complement factor H (CFH) gene involved in innate immunity. These two SNPs explain about 25% of cases of AMD. In recent literature, a link between AMD and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) has been postulated. Indeed, the possibility of early diagnosis of cognitive degeneration of the brain in AD is suggested by using non-invasive optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the retina. We aimed the investigation of the possible association between AMD and AD, as attributed by the analysis of the two aforementioned SNPs.

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Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.26717/BJSTR.2023.49.007855

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