Introduction of Asian Eye Genetics Consortium
   Recent advancement of DNA sequencing and internet technology has brought a new era in the field of human genetics. Decades of eye genetic research has shown genetic is deeply involved in eye diseases. These genetic involvements can be highly penetrant such as in Mendelian eye diseases or as risk factor in common eye diseases. In both cases patient genome sequence is quickly determined and traced within family or compared with millions of genome sequence collected around the world and stored in the database. However, most of these information originates from population of European decent and information on other ethnic groups are limited. The Asian Eye Genetics Consortium (AEGC) was established to focus in this most populated region of the globe but very little has been explored for the genetics