Abstract
Asian Eye Genetics Consortium (AEGC) was established in 2014 to encourage and focus on eye disease research in Asia. With significant advancements in DNA sequencing and internet data exchange technology, we are experiencing a new era in the field of human genetics. Decades of eye genetic research have shown that genetic variations are widely involved in eye diseases. These genetic involvements can be highly penetrant as in Mendelian eye diseases or highly associated as risk factors in common eye diseases. In both cases, patient genome sequence is quickly determined and traced within family or compared with millions of genome sequences collected around the world and stored in a database. However, most of the information originates from population of European descent, and information on other ethnic groups are limited. AEGC focuses on eye research in Asia, the most populated region of the world where very little has been explored for genetic eye diseases. The new consortium has brought a collective thinking and ideas from researchers around the world who have interest in genetic eye research in the Asian region.
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