Identification of novel loci influencing refractive error in East Asian populations using an extreme phenotype design

doi: 10.1016/j.jgg.2021.08.011

• Xiaotong Han ^a , 
• Tianzi Liu ^b,c , 
• Xiaohu Ding ^a , 
• Jialin Liu ^b,c,d , 
• Xingyan Lin ^a , 
• Decai Wang ^a , 
• Moeen Riaz ^e , 
• Paul N. Baird ^f , 
• Zhi Xie ^a , 
• Yuan Cheng ^b,c,d , 
• Yi Li ^b,c,d , 
• Yuki Mori ^g , 
• Masahiro Miyake ^g , 
• Hengtong Li ^h , 
• Ching-Yu Cheng ^h,i,j , 
• Changqing Zeng ^b,c,d , 
• Kyoko Ohno-Matsui ^g     , 
• Xiangtian Zhou ^k,l     , 
• Fan Liu ^b,c,d     , 
• Mingguang He ^a    

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  a State Key Laboratory of Ophthalmology, Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510000, China;

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  b CAS Key Laboratory of Genomic and Precision Medicine, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;

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  c China National Center for Bioinformation, Beijing 100101, China;

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  d University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China;

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  e School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia;

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  f Department of Surgery, Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia;

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  g Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan;

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  h Singapore Eye Research Institute, Singapore National Eye Centre 168751, Singapore;

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  i Department of Ophthalmology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore 119077, Singapore;

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  j Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School 169857, Singapore;

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  k School of Optometry and Ophthalmology and Eye Hospital, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China;

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  l State Key Laboratory of Optometry, Ophthalmology and Vision Science, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325035, China