Genomic Risk Profiling May Help Predict Which Patients With Fuchs Endothelial Corneal Dystrophy Progress to Keratoplasty

Highlights

In Fuchs endothelial corneal dystrophy, the need for keratoplasty is clinically important but often difficult to predict using examination findings alone.

A 2026 study in Ophthalmology reports that genomic risk profiling, specifically CTG18.1 repeat expansion status combined with a disease-specific polygenic risk score, predicts risk of progression to keratoplasty.

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