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and colleagues first proposed this potential relationship between homocysteine and AMD in the mid-1990s and published this hypothesis in a review article in 1999. She and her team previously established that smoking and nutrition are modifiable factors associated with the development and progression of AMD. They are now also searching for the genes involved in the etiology of this increasing cause of blindness.

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Contact: Mary E. Leach
Mary_Leach@meei.harvard.edu
617-573-4170
Harvard Medical School
4-Jan-2006

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