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. 2022 Mar 9;9(3):382. doi: 10.3390/children9030382

Table 3.

Genome-wide association studies in refractive error and axial length.

First Author Publication Date * Discovery Stage Replication Stage Genes/Loci **
Phenotype: Refractive error
Hysi P.G. [98] 14 September 2010 4270 European ancestry individuals 13,414 European ancestry individuals RASGRF1
Solouki A.M. [100] 14 September 2010 5328 individuals predominantly European ancestry (>99%) 10,280 individuals predominantly European ancestry (>99%) GJD2-ACTC1
Verhoeven V.J. [102] 12 February 2013 Stage 1: 37,382 European ancestry individuals; Stage 2: 8376 Asian ancestry individuals (meta-GWAS) CD55, PRSS56, CHRNG, CACNA1D, LAMA2, CHD7, TOX, ZMAT4, RORB, CYP26A1 and 16 genes/loci
Stambolian D. [103] 12 March 2013 7280 European ancestry individuals 19,673 European ancestry individuals RBFOX1
Fan Q. [105] 30 March 2016 40,036 European and 10,315 Asian ancestry individuals (meta-GWAS) LAMA2, GJD2, KCNQ5, FBN1, TOX, DIS3L, FAM150B-ACP1, LINC00340, A2BP1, RDH5 and 15 genes/loci
Tedja M.S. [113] 28 May 2018 Stage 1: 44,192 European and 11,935 Asian ancestry individuals; Stage 2: 104,293 European ancestry individuals; Stage 3: j meta-GWAS 95,505 European ancestry individuals LAMA2, GJD2, KCNQ5, LRRC4C, RDH5, RBFOX1, SNORA51, PRSS56, SHISA6, ZMAT4 and 130 genes/loci
Hysi P.G. [19] 30 March 2020 508,855 European ancestry individuals 34,079 European ancestry individuals LAMA2, GJD2, KCNQ5, RBFOX1, LRRC4C, BLOC1S1-RDH5, TOX, PRSS56, ZMAT4, SHISA6 and 439 genes/loci
Phenotype: Axial length
Fan Q. [108] 7 June 2012 1860 Chinese adults, 929 Chinese children, and 2155 Malay adults NA ZC3H11B
Cheng C.Y. [109] 8 August 2013 12,531 European ancestry individuals 8216 Asian ancestry individuals RSPO1, ZC3H11B, GJD2, C3orf26, LAMA2, ZNRF3, CD55, ALPPL2, MIP
Miyake M. [111] 31 March 2015 3248 Japanese ancestry individuals 5383 Asian and 2690 Caucasian ancestry individuals WNT7B

* Epub data or the earliest publication data; ** If the study reported more than 10 significant genes/loci, then only the name of top 10 genes/loci were shown in the table.