Increased risk of RPD formation is conveyed by genetic variants known to increase risk of AMD development, including complement factor H, age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2, and high-temperature requirement A serine peptidase 1; however, to date, no genetic factor has been found to predispose to RPD independent of those that carry risks for AMD.
CFH and ARMS2 risk alleles do not modify the response to the AREDS2 nutrient supplements with respect to the progression to late AMD (GA and neovascular AMD).
However, weak correlations between 10 SNPs (CFH rs1329428 TT genotype, CFH rs3753394 CC genotype and T allele, CFH rs1410996 AA genotype, CFH rs800292 AA genotype, CFH rs800292 A allele, VEGF rs833061 TT genotype and C allele, VEGF rs2010963 CG genotype, VEGFR2 rs1531289 TT genotype, ARMS2 rs10490924 TT genotype, KCTD10 rs238104 GC genotype, rs1531289 T allele and ARMS2rs10490924 T allele) and AMD were shown.
Sub-analysis demonstrated that women with ARMS2A69S polymorphisms had a stronger risk for early AMD (OR: 3.25, 95% CI: 2.10-5.04) than men (OR: 1.65, 95% CI: 1.02-2.69).
Blood samples from all subjects were genotyped for major age-related macular degeneration (AMD)-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) the major AMD-associated SNPs; CFH Y402Hrs1061170, CFH rs800292" genes_norm="3075;5362">I62Vrs800292, ARMS2rs10490924" genes_norm="387715">A69S rs10490924.
Among different genotype combinations ARMS2-CFH and CFH-C3 combinations have the most significant levels of synergism and C3-CFI combination has the most significant level of antagonism in AMD patients.
In this post hoc analysis of cross-sectional data from US participants in the Comparison of AMD Treatments Trials, genotyping was performed in 835 participants with TaqMan assays for the SNPs rs1061170 (Y402H variant in CFH), rs800292 (rs800292" genes_norm="3075">I62V variant in CFH), rs10490924 (rs10490924;s10490924" genes_norm="387715;717">A69S variant in ARMS2), rs11200638 (HTRA1), rs547154 (C2), rs2230199 (rs2230199" genes_norm="5654;718">R102G variant in C3), rs10468017 (LIPC), and rs4151667 (L9H variant in CFB).
Age and the T allele of ARMS2A69S are the risk factors requiring retreatments, leading to poor visual change in eyes with exudative AMD following the initial 3-monthly IVR.
This interaction is opposite in direction to that observed in AMD, where patients with 2 CFH and 0 ARMS2 risk alleles had increased progression to neovascular AMD if treated with 80 mg/day of zinc.
Incident early AMD was associated with cardiovascular disease history (HR 1.59, 95% CI 1.04-2.45), underweight body mass index (BMI) (HR 3.12, 95% CI 1.37-7.14) (BMI of <18.5 vs 18.51-25 kg/m2), heavy alcohol drinking (HR 3.14 95% CI 1.25-7.89) and ARMS2rs3750847 homozygous genetic loci carrier (HR 2.52, 95% CI 1.59-3.99).
We have previously reported associations from a population-based study in India (the India age-related eye disease study (INDEYE)) of early AMD and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in <i>ARMS2/HTRA1</i> and no association with <i>CFH</i>, <i>C2</i> or <i>CFB</i>.
Analysis of pooled data showed that risk genotypes frequency of ARMS2A69S was significantly different between AMD with RPD and AMD without RPD [OR = 1.82, 95% confidence interval (CI): 1.26-2.63 for GT versus GG ARMS2A69S; OR = 2.40, 95% CI: 1.50-3.84 for TT versus GG ARMS2A69S].
The DeePAS revealed a significant association of the rs3750846 SNP at the ARMS2/HTRA1 locus with subretinal/sub-retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) hemorrhage related to neovascular AMD (odds ratio 1.55 [95% confidence interval 1.31-1.84], P = 2.67 × 10<sup>-7</sup>).
Genetic Polymorphisms of CFH and ARMS2 Do Not Predict Response to Antioxidants and Zinc in Patients with Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Independent Statistical Evaluations of Data from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study.
We genotyped 2067 Caucasian subjects from the Age-Related Eye Disease Study cohort for commonly associated AMD SNPs, including those in CFH (rs1061170, rs1410996, and rs3766404), ARMS2 (rs10490924), and C3 (rs2230199) using either a Sequenom MassARRAY MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer or using Taqman genotyping reagents.
English-language studies assessing AREDS supplement response in patients with AMD in relation to complement factor H gene ( CFH) and age-related maculopathy susceptibility 2 gene ( ARMS2) risk alleles were evaluated.
In this study, we analyzed rare recombinant haplotypes in 16,144 AMD cases and 17,832 controls from the International AMD Genomics Consortium and identified variants in ARMS2 but not HTRA1 to exclusively carry the AMD risk with P-values between 1.0 × 10<sup>-773</sup> and 6.7 × 10<sup>-5</sup> This now allows prioritization of the gene of interest for subsequent functional studies.