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Family History and AMD: How Genetics Affect Macular Degeneration Risk Factors
When people ask about macular degeneration risk factors, family history usually comes up sooner or later. That makes sense. Age-related macular degeneration, or AMD, often runs in families, and the pattern can feel unnervingly familiar: a parent needed injections for wet AMD, an older sibling noticed distortion while reading, a grandparent gradually lost central vision and assumed it was just old age. Genetics do not tell the whole story, but they do matter, sometimes a gre
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