… Study methodology and heterogeneity were assessed independently by two investigators
(JY, R.Kaw.). Any disagreement was settled by consensus or adjudication with a third reviewer …

A common detection and classification system is needed for epidemiologic studies of age-related
maculopathy (ARM). Such a grading scheme for ARM is described in this paper. ARM …

PURPOSE: To develop consensus regarding clinical disease severity classification systems
for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema that can be used around the world, and …

Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a major cause of blindness in the elderly. We
report a genome-wide screen of 96 cases and 50 controls for polymorphisms associated with …

The magnitude of the health problem from diabetic neuropathies remains inadequately
estimated due to the lack of prospective population-based studies employing standardized and …

Background When thyroid deficiency occurs simultaneously in a pregnant woman and her
fetus, the child's neuropsychological development is adversely affected. Whether …

… Klein’s innovative approach while showing how cumulative discoveries and analyses over
the past ten years have significantly refined our knowledge of human evolution. Klein … , Klein …

There is substantial heterogeneity among primary prostate cancers, evident in the spectrum
of molecular abnormalities and its variable clinical course. As part of The Cancer Genome …

… The values are, from left to right, the level of gaussian noise σ, the percentage of outliers o,
the mean values μ r for radius and μ c for center deviation, and the standard deviations σ r of …

Objectives To estimate the cause-specific prevalence and distribution of blindness and low
vision in the United States by age, race/ethnicity, and gender, and to estimate the change in …