Photoreceptor cell layer thickness 2023 GWAS: European ancestry

Summary statistics are available for download from the GWAS Catalog.

Publications

Sub-cellular level resolution of common genetic variation in the photoreceptor layer identifies continuum between rare disease and common variation.
Currant H, et al.
PLoS Genet. 2023 Feb 27;19(2):e1010587. doi: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1010587.
PMID: 36848389

Phenotypes

• Photoreceptor cell outer nuclear layer thickness
• Photoreceptor cell inner segment thickness
• Photoreceptor cell outer segment thickness

Experiment summary

This study analyzed genetic associations for photoreceptor morphology parameters, as measured by optical coherence tomography, in 31,135 subjects of European ancestry from the UK Biobank.