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Author Spotlight: Unraveling the Pathogenesis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Discovering Potential Therapies
Published on: July 28, 2023
Answer to the Hamlet-like dilemma of lipid metabolites causing senile macular degeneration
1Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Genomics and Neurobiology, Science for Life Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden; Department of Ophthalmology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands.
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In this issue of Cell Reports Medicine, Han et al.1 conducted a multi-ancestry genetic and metabolomic analysis to investigate the causal relationships between age-related macular degeneration and plasma and urine metabolites.
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