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Somatic Mutations within Myocilin due to Aging May Be a Potential Risk Factor for Glaucoma.

Yevgeniy Sazhnyev, Akaash Venkat, Jie J Zheng

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Article in Genes, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed, 2 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Protein misfolding and mitochondrial dysfunction in glaucoma.Frontiers in cell and developmental biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yevgeniy SazhnyevDepartment of Ophthalmology, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Akaash VenkatDepartment of Ophthalmology, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Jie J ZhengDepartment of Ophthalmology, Stein Eye Institute, David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6524-6800
University of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

Vision Research Core at UCLAP30EY000331 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Xian-Jie Yang · 1985 to 2026
$16.8M
Development of small-molecule Wnt mimetics for corneal epithelial cell regenerationR01EY028557 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI DENG, SOPHIE, ZHENG, JIE J. · 2018 to 2021
$2.0M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY000331NEI NIH HHS R01 EY028557NEI NIH HHS R01EY028557
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glaucoma is a chronic optic neuropathy that leads to irreversible vision loss. Aging and family history are the two most important risk factors of glaucoma. One of the most studied genes involved in the onset of open-angle glaucoma is myocilin (MYOC). About 105 germline mutations within MYOC are known to be associated with glaucoma and result in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress, which leads to trabecular meshwork (TM) cell death and subsequent intraocular pressure (IOP) elevation. However, only about 4% of the population carry these mutations. An analysis of MYOC somatic cancer-associated mutations revealed a notable overlap with pathogenic glaucoma variants. Because TM cells have the potential to accumulate somatic mutations at a rapid rate due to ultraviolet (UV) light exposure, we propose that an accumulation of somatic mutations within MYOC is an important contributor to the onset of glaucoma.

Indexed as

Cytoskeletal ProteinsEye ProteinsGlaucomaGlaucoma, Open-AngleGlycoproteinsHumansMutationMyocilinCytoskeletal ProteinsEye ProteinsGlycoproteinsMyocilinagingglaucomasomatic mutation

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PMID38397193
PMCPMC10887703
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