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In fact, all 31 amino acids (34 missense/nonsense mutations total) for human myocilin documented in the Human Gene Mutation Database http://uwcmml1s.uwcm.ac.uk/uwcm/mg/search/5584221.htmlto cause glaucoma are conserved in rabbit myocilin (Fig 2).
This suggests that MYOC haploinsufficiency is not causative for glaucoma and that myocilin may even be dispensable or redundant in normal human development or only important when ocular stress occurs.
Due to conservation in mammalian physiology and the powerful tools of mouse genetics, mice are a very important experimental system for probing the functions (both in health and disease) of many genes recently identified by sequencing the human genome [ 12 ] . We have focused on developing the mouse system for IOP and glaucoma studies [ 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ] . Mice are expected to be extremely helpful in characterizing genes and mechanisms that affect IOP or the susceptibility of the optic nerve and retina to glaucomatous damage [ 20 ] .
Glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness but its molecular etiology is poorly understood.
These results add to our understanding of the natural history of glaucoma in mice and provide a new animal model for studying glaucoma involving increased IOP.