Susceptibility to glaucoma: differential comparison of the astrocyte transcriptome from glaucomatous African American and Caucasian American donors

Authors

Thomas J. Lukas, Northwestern University
Haixi Miao, Northwestern University
Lin Chen, Northwestern University
Sean M. Riordan, Northwestern University
Wenjun Li, Northwestern University
Andrea M. Crabb, Northwestern University
Alexandria Wise, CUNY City College
Pan Du, Northwestern University
Simon M. Lin, Northwestern University
M Rosario Hernandez, Northwestern University

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

July 2008

Abstract

Comparison of gene expression in normal and glaucomatous eyes from Caucasian American and African American donors reveals differences that might reflect different susceptibility to glaucoma.

Comments

This work was originally published in Genome Biology, available at doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-r111.