The invention relates to Factor H gene polymorphisms and haplotypes associated with an elevated or a reduced risk of AMD. The invention provides methods and reagents for diagnosis and treatment of AMD.
Patent
Complement factor H for diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration
United States Patent and Trademark Office
01/03/2012
Abstract
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Complement factor H for diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration
- Creators
- Gregory S Hageman (Inventor)Richard J Smith (Inventor)
- Contributors
- University of Iowa Research Foundation (Iowa City, IA, US) (Assignee)
- Resource Type
- Patent
- Publisher
- United States Patent and Trademark Office; United States
- Patent
- US Patent 8,088,579; Published; 11/816,167; 02/14/2006; 435/6.11; 424/9.1, 435/6.1, 435/6.12, 435/7.21, 436/514, 436/516, 436/517, 436/518
- Number of pages
- 153 pages
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/03/2012
- Academic Unit
- Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Molecular Physiology and Biophysics; Anatomy and Cell Biology; Stead Family Department of Pediatrics; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; UI Research Foundation; Otolaryngology; Internal Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9983762085702771
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