Alex W Hewitt

No ORCID on file · 5 papers in corpus
observational 2019
JAMA ophthalmology ·doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2018.4477

IMPORTANCE: The p.Gln368Ter (rs74315329) risk allele in the myocilin gene (MYOC) was initially reported to have high penetrance in glaucoma registry-based studies, but much lower estimates were recently obtained from population-based studie…

other 2019
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-019-0447-2

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via a link at the top of the paper.

other 2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-017-0011-x

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified >250 loci for body mass index (BMI), implicating pathways related to neuronal biology. Most GWAS loci represent clusters of common, noncoding variants from which pinpointing causal gene…

other 2018
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/s41588-018-0050-y

In the published version of this paper, the name of author Emanuele Di Angelantonio was misspelled. This error has now been corrected in the HTML and PDF versions of the article.

other 2014
Nature genetics ·doi:10.1038/ng.3079

Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a major cause of irreversible blindness worldwide. We performed a genome-wide association study in an Australian discovery cohort comprising 1,155 cases with advanced POAG and 1,992 controls. We investi…