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Matynia, A., Nguyen, E., Sun, X., Blixt, F.W., Parikh, S., Kessler, J., Perez de Sevilla Muller, L., Habib, S., Kim, P., Wang, Z.Z., Rodriguez, A., Charles, A., Nusinowitz, S., Edvinsson, L., Barnes, S., Brecha, N.C., and Gorin, M.B. (2016). Peripheral sensory neurons expressing melanopsin respond to light. Front Neural Circuits, doi:10.3389/fncir.2016.00060.

Matynia, A., Parikh, S., Deot, N., Wong, A., Kim, P., Nusinowitz, S., and Gorin, M.B. (2015). Light aversion and corneal mechanical sensitivity are altered by intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells in a mouse model of corneal surface damage. Exp Eye Res 137, 57-62.

Matynia, A., Parikh, S., Chen, B., Kim, P., McNeill, D.S., Nusinowitz, S., Evans, C., and Gorin, M.B. (2012). Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells are the primary but not exclusive circuit for light aversion. Exp Eye Res 105, 60-69.

Shan Y, Tromp G, Kuivaniemi H, Smelser DT, Verma SS, Ritchie MD, Elmore JR, Carey DJ, Conley YP, Gorin MB, Weeks DE. Genetic risk models: Influence of model size on risk estimates and precision. Genet Epidemiol. 2017 May;41(4):282-296. doi: 10.1002/gepi.22035. Epub 2017 Feb 15. PubMed PMID: 28198095; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5628612.

Jiao X, Li A, Jin ZB, Wang X, Iannaccone A, Traboulsi EI, Gorin MB, Simonelli F, Hejtmancik JF. Identification and population history of CYP4V2 mutations in patients with Bietti crystalline corneoretinal dystrophy. Eur J Hum Genet. 2017 Apr;25(4):461-471. doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2016.184. Epub 2017 Jan 4. PubMed PMID: 28051075; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC5386409.

Strom SP, Clark MJ, Martinez A, Garcia S, Abelazeem AA, Matynia A, Parikh S, Sullivan LS, Bowne SJ, Daiger SP, Gorin MB. De Novo Occurrence of a Variant in ARL3 and Apparent Autosomal Dominant Transmission of Retinitis Pigmentosa. PLoS One. 2016 Mar 10;11(3):e0150944. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0150944. eCollection 2016. PubMed PMID: 26964041; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4786330.

Fritsche LG, Igl W, et al. A large genome-wide association study of age-related macular degeneration highlights contributions of rare and common variants. Nat Genet. 2016 Feb;48(2):134-43. doi: 10.1038/ng.3448. Epub 2015 Dec 21. PubMed PMID: 26691988; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4745342.

Gorin MB, Weeks DE, Baron RV, Conley YP, Ortube MC, Nusinowitz S. Endophenotypes for Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Extending Our Reach into the Preclinical Stages of Disease. J Clin Med. 2014 Nov 28;3(4):1335-56. doi: 10.3390/jcm3041335. PubMed PMID: 25568804; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4284143.

Zernant J, Xie YA, Ayuso C, Riveiro-Alvarez R, Lopez-Martinez MA, Simonelli F, Testa F, Gorin MB, Strom SP, Bertelsen M, Rosenberg T, Boone PM, Yuan B, Ayyagari R, Nagy PL, Tsang SH, Gouras P, Collison FT, Lupski JR, Fishman GA, Allikmets R. Analysis of the ABCA4 genomic locus in Stargardt disease. Hum Mol Genet. 2014 Dec 20;23(25):6797-806. doi: 10.1093/hmg/ddu396. Epub 2014 Jul 31. PubMed PMID: 25082829; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC4245042.


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