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Based in King’s College London’s Department of Twin Research and Genetic Epidemiology, the group’s research focuses on the genetics of age-related eye diseases (myopia, glaucoma and age-related cataract), using –omics technologies including genome-wide association studies, whole-genome sequencing and epigenetics, and in particular measuring quantitative healthy variation in these traits in 3000-5000 twins.
Quantitative phenotype collection and follow-up (eg cataract assessment (Scheimpflug lens photograph), retinal vascular caliber (retinal photograph)); GWAS, sequencing, etc
Christopher Hammond
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St Thomas’ Hospital Campus, 3rd Floor South Wing Block D
Westminster Bridge Road
SE1 7EH
London
United Kingdom
Phone: +44 (0)207 188 9055
Fax: +44 (0)207 188 6718
E-mail:
chris.hammond[at]kcl.ac.uk