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Background  Myopia is the most common ocular disorder worldwide and imposes tremendous burden on the society. It is a complex disease. The  MYP6  locus at 22 q12 is of particular interest because many studies have detected linkage signals at this interval. The  MYP6  locus is likely to contain susceptibility gene(s) for myopia, but none has yet been identified.    Methodology/Principal Findings  Two independent subject groups of southern Chinese in Hong Kong participated in the study an initial study using a discovery sample set of 342 cases and 342 controls, and a follow-up study using a replication sample set of 316 cases and 313 controls. Cases with high myopia were defined by spherical equivalent ≤ -8 dioptres and emmetropic controls by spherical equivalent within ±1.00 dioptre for both eyes. Manual candidate gene selection from the  MYP6  locus was supported by objective  in silico  prioritization. DNA samples of discovery sample set were genotyped for 178 tagging single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 26 genes. For replication, 25 SNPs (tagging or located at predicted transcription factor or microRNA binding sites) from 4 genes were subsequently examined using the replication sample set. Fisher  P  value was calculated for all SNPs and overall association results were summarized by meta-analysis. Based on initial and replication studies, rs2009066 located in the crystallin beta A4 ( CRYBA4 ) gene was identified to be the most significantly associated with high myopia (initial study:  P  = 0.02; replication study:  P  = 1.88e-4; meta-analysis:  P  = 1.54e-5) among all the SNPs tested. The association result survived correction for multiple comparisons. Under the allelic genetic model for the combined sample set, the odds ratio of the minor allele G was 1.41 (95% confidence intervals, 1.21-1.64).    Conclusions/Significance  A novel susceptibility gene ( CRYBA4 ) was discovered for high myopia. Our study also signified the potential importance of appropriate gene prioritization in candidate selection.

Association of High Myopia with Crystallin Beta A4 (CRYBA4) Gene Polymorphisms in the Linkage-Identified MYP6 Locus