[Since the retina is highly sensitive to peroxidation and the GPX gene product protects cells from oxidative damage, and the fact that the ABCR gene is considered as a major disease gene in macular degeneration we reasoned that they might serve as candidate genes in a subset of ARMD cases.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE