Some of you will remember that the KC Group donated 4K to the Moorfields team, headed by Mr Stephen Tuft, researching the genetics of KC to enable them to do some additional analysis of the data. You may also have read the summary of the talk given by Professor Alison Hardcastle at our AGM earlier this year in our latest newsletter https://www.keratoconus-group.org.uk/wp ... r-2019.pdf. Her talk gave an outline of the results of that analysis. A scientific paper giving detailed results has now been published.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31246245
In sending us the above link, Stephen Tuft wrote "The results of the work have given us some clues as to the genetic causes of keratoconus. In addition, this work will complement a very large study into the genetic basis of keratoconus that we hope to submit for publication in the next few weeks. The Keratoconus Group has helped us recruit for this study, and we are grateful for that."
He also asked us to thank our members and tell them that their support at an early stage of this work helped move the research forward at an important time.
Quite a few of our members took part in the very large study that Mr Tuft mentions, so we will obviously let you know as soon as we have details of that publication.
Genetic research into KC
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