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Treatment of glaucoma with Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange factor 12 (ARHGEF12) inhibitors

Grant US12577562B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Inventors

Kavita Praveen, Giovanni Coppola, Manuel Allen Revez Ferreira, Lauren Gurski, Aris Baras, Claudia Schurmann

Abstract

The present disclosure provides methods of treating subjects having glaucoma or elevated intraocular pressure (IOP), methods of identifying subjects having an increased risk of developing glaucoma or developing elevated IOP, methods of detecting human Rho Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factor 12 (ARHGEF12) variant nucleic acid molecules and variant polypeptides, and ARHGEF12 variant nucleic acid molecules and variant polypeptides.

CPC Classifications

C12N 15/113 C12N 2310/11 C12N 2310/14 C12N 2310/531 C12N 2310/20 C12N 2320/30 C12N 2320/34 A61P 27/06 C08G 69/10 C12Q 2600/156 C12Q 1/6883 A61K 31/7088

Filing Date

2022-09-28

Application No.

17936244

Claims

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