Gharahkhani P

ORCID: 0000-0002-4203-5952 · 5 papers in corpus · active 2014-2019
2019
JAMA ophthalmology ·doi:10.1001/jamaophthalmol.2018.4477

ImportanceThe 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 studies.…

2018
Scientific reports ·doi:10.1038/s41598-018-20435-9

Open-angle glaucoma (OAG) is a major cause of blindness worldwide. To identify new risk loci for OAG, we performed a genome-wide association study in 3,071 OAG cases and 6,750 unscreened controls, and meta-analysed the results with GWAS dat…

2016
International journal of epidemiology ·doi:10.1093/ije/dyw207

BackgroundIn vitro and observational epidemiological studies suggest that vitamin D may play a role in cancer prevention. However, the relationship between vitamin D and ovarian cancer is uncertain, with observational studies generating con…

2016
Human molecular genetics ·doi:10.1093/hmg/ddv512

Esophageal adenocarcinoma (EA) is a rapidly fatal cancer with rising incidence in the developed world. Most EAs arise in a metaplastic epithelium, Barrett's esophagus (BE), which is associated with greatly increased risk of EA. One of the k…

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…