The Glaucoma Genetics Lab is dedicated to finding the genes that cause glaucoma and developing new sight-saving therapies. We have five major approaches to study the genetics of glaucoma.
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- Family-based research
- Studies of families with many members that have glaucoma.
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- Transgenic animal models of glaucoma research
- We are engineering mice to have the same genetic causes of glaucoma as humans and using them to study the biology of glaucoma and develop cures.
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- Stem cell-based research
- We are producing ocular tissue from skin cells collected from a small biopsy from our patients. This approach allows studies of the eye tissues important in glaucoma that require only a small punch of skin cells.
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- Population-based research
- Studies of the groups of unrelated glaucoma patients.
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- Quantitative traits of glaucoma research
- Studies of the heredity of specific measurements of the eye - like eye pressure.