The rationale for targeting the LOX family in cancer

HE Barker, TR Cox, JT Erler - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2012 - nature.com
The therapeutic targeting of extracellular proteins is becoming hugely attractive in light of
evidence implicating the tumour microenvironment as pivotal in all aspects of tumour …

Major review: exfoliation syndrome; advances in disease genetics, molecular biology, and epidemiology

IF Aboobakar, WM Johnson, WD Stamer… - Experimental eye …, 2017 - Elsevier
Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is a common age-related disorder that leads to deposition of
extracellular fibrillar material throughout the body. The most recognized disease …

Glaucoma: genes, phenotypes, and new directions for therapy

BJ Fan, JL Wiggs - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2010 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Glaucoma, a leading cause of blindness worldwide, is characterized by progressive optic
nerve damage, usually associated with intraocular pressure. Although the clinical …

The interactions of genes, age, and environment in glaucoma pathogenesis

LP Doucette, A Rasnitsyn, M Seifi, MA Walter - Survey of ophthalmology, 2015 - Elsevier
Glaucoma, a progressive degenerative condition that results in the death of retinal ganglion
cells, is one of the leading causes of blindness, affecting millions worldwide. The …

A common variant mapping to CACNA1A is associated with susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome

T Aung, M Ozaki, T Mizoguchi, RR Allingham, Z Li… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Exfoliation syndrome (XFS) is the most common recognizable cause of open-angle
glaucoma worldwide. To better understand the etiology of XFS, we conducted a genome …

Molecular pathology of pseudoexfoliation syndrome/glaucoma–new insights from LOXL1 gene associations

U Schlötzer-Schrehardt - Experimental eye research, 2009 - Elsevier
Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome is a generalized disease of the extracellular matrix and a
major cause of severe open-angle glaucoma. Single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in …

Genotype-correlated expression of lysyl oxidase-like 1 in ocular tissues of patients with pseudoexfoliation syndrome/glaucoma and normal patients

U Schlötzer-Schrehardt, F Pasutto, P Sommer… - The American journal of …, 2008 - Elsevier
Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome is a generalized disease of the extracellular matrix and
the most common identifiable cause of open-angle glaucoma. Two single nucleotide …

Ocular and systemic manifestations of exfoliation syndrome

R Ritch - Journal of glaucoma, 2014 - journals.lww.com
Exfoliation syndrome is an age-related disease characterized by the production and
progressive accumulation of a fibrillar extracellular material in many ocular tissues. It leads …

Genetics and genomics of pseudoexfoliation syndrome/glaucoma

U Schlötzer-Schrehardt - Middle East African journal of …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome, one of the most common causes of glaucoma,
represents a complex, multifactorial, late-onset disease of worldwide significance. The …

[HTML][HTML] Major LOXL1 risk allele is reversed in exfoliation glaucoma in a black South African population

SEI Williams, BT Whigham, Y Liu, TR Carmichael… - Molecular …, 2010 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Purpose To investigate whether variants in the lysyl oxidase-like 1 (LOXL1) gene are
associated with exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) and primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in …