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Review: The role of LOXL1 in exfoliation syndrome/glaucoma

Benjamin T. Whigham, +1 more
- 01 Oct 2011 - 
- Vol. 25, Iss: 4, pp 347-352
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It now appears the strong association between LOXL1 and XFS is due to non-coding variants that have not yet been identified, which might alter LO XL1 expression, which is decreased in the late stages of exfoliation syndrome/glaucoma.
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This article is published in Saudi Journal of Ophthalmology.The article was published on 2011-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 20 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Population.

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Exfoliation syndrome: a disease with an environmental component.

TL;DR: A greater understanding of the environmental components associated with XFS may lead to lifestyle preventive strategies to ameliorate disease burden.
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Autophagy and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Tenon Fibroblasts from Exfoliation Glaucoma Patients

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test the hypothesis that autophagy dysfunction is involved in exfoliation syndrome (XFS), a systemic disorder of extracellular elastic matrices that causes a distinct form of human glaucoma.
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Risk for Exfoliation Syndrome in Women With Pelvic Organ Prolapse : A Utah Project on Exfoliation Syndrome (UPEXS) Study.

TL;DR: The diagnosis of exfoliation syndrome was more frequent in women with pelvic organ prolapse in the Utah Population Database, a robust population-based resource, thus supporting an association of ex foliation syndrome with a nonocular systemic condition.
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LOXL1 Gene Polymorphism With Exfoliation Syndrome/Exfoliation Glaucoma: A Meta-Analysis.

TL;DR: A meta-analysis of the associations between lysyl oxidase-like 1 gene polymorphism and the susceptibility to exfoliation syndrome (XFS)/exfoliation glaucoma (XFG) indicates that rs1048661 had weak association with XFG/XFS; rs3825942 (“G” alleles) had strongly association withXFG/ XFS; and rs2165241 had significant risk with XFS in some ethnicity.
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Autophagy and Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Tenon Fibroblasts from Exfoliation Glaucoma Patients

TL;DR: A link between XFS pathology to autophagy dysfunction, a major contributor to multiple age related diseases systemically throughout the body, in the brain and in the retina, is provided for the first time.
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Lysyl oxidase: Properties, specificity, and biological roles inside and outside of the cell

TL;DR: Although the three‐dimensional structure of LO has yet to be determined, the present treatise offers hypotheses based upon its primary sequence, which may underlie the prominent electrostatic component of its unusual substrate specificity as well as the catalysis‐suppressing function of the propeptide domain of prolysyl oxidase.
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Elastic fiber homeostasis requires lysyl oxidase-like 1 protein.

TL;DR: It is shown that mice lacking the protein lysyl oxidase–like 1 (LOXL1) do not deposit normal elastic fibers in the uterine tract post partum and develop pelvic organ prolapse, enlarged airspaces of the lung, loose skin and vascular abnormalities with concomitant tropoelastin accumulation.
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Ocular and Systemic Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an update on most recent developments regarding ocular and systemic manifestations and complications, clinical diagnosis and management, and molecular pathophysiology of pseudoexfoliation (PEX) syndrome, and discuss future tasks and challenges in this field.
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Alternative splicing and disease.

TL;DR: Well-studied examples that show how a disturbance of a fine-tuned balance of factors regulates splice site selection can cause human disease are discussed.
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