Genetic Load and Phenotype in Aggressive AMD

Completed

Conditions studied: Age-related Macular Degeneration

In brief

Patients with AMD will provide cheek cell samples to determine if their is a correlation between genotype (DNA markers) and phenotype (the type of AMD the patient has).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01650948

Run by

Sequenom, Inc.

People needed

100

Starts

2012-07-01

Expected to finish

2013-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2014-01-20

Who can join

Age: 50 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Subject is male or female 50 years of age and older
• Subject provides a signed and dated informed consent
• Subject agrees to provide two buccal swabs in accordance with this protocol
• Diagnosis of CNV secondary to AMD in at least one eye

You may not qualify if…

• Previous sample donation under this protocol
• Presence of retinal disease involving the photoreceptors and/or outer retinal layers other than AMD loss such as high myopia, retinal dystrophies, central serous retinopathy, vein occlusion, diabetic retinopathy and uveitis or similar outer retinal diseases which have been present prior to the age of 50.
• Opacities of the ocular media, limitations of pupillary dilation or other problems sufficient to preclude adequate imaging of the posterior segment.

Where it is running

• Pacific Eye Associates — San Francisco, California, United States
• Retina Associates of Kentucky — Lexington, Kentucky, United States
• Tennessee Retina — Nashville, Tennessee, United States

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