Association of retinal optical coherence tomography metrics and polygenic risk scores with cognitive function and future cognitive decline
Conclusions and relevance
Retinal OCT measurements are significantly associated with genetic risk of neurodegenerative disease and may serve as biomarkers predictive of future cognitive impairment.
Source: British Journal of Ophthalmology - Category: Opthalmology Authors: Sekimitsu, S., Shweikh, Y., Shareef, S., Zhao, Y., Elze, T., Segre, A., Wiggs, J., Zebardast, N. Tags: Neuro-ophthalmology and strabismus Source Type: research
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