Age-Related Macular Degeneration and Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma: Genetics and Gene-Environment Interaction

The genetics of AMD as well as of POAG have been exciting research areas during the last decade. The advances in molecular genetic techniques paved the way for great progress in the discovery of genes and led to the identification of many disease-associated risk variants. In this chapter, we will focus on the genes which have good evidence to be involved in the pathogenesis of either of these disorders.