Diagnostics and therapeutics for arterial wall disruptive disorders

摘要

The invention provides diagnostics, therapeutics and drug screening assays for arterial wall disruptive disorders, based on the discovery of a high level of correlation between the incidence of arterial wall disruptive disorders and the incidence of Age Related Macular Degeneration (AMD). In one embodiment, the arterial wall disruptive disorder is an aortic aneurysm.