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Thursday, March 7, 2013

Senate OKs delaying Utah immigration law effective date | The Salt ...

Believing that Congress will pass some version of comprehensive immigration, the Utah Senate on Wednesday passed a measure delaying by two years the effective date of the state?s guest worker law.

Sen. Curt Bramble, R-Provo, carried SB225, which easily won passage in a 22-3 vote.

Bramble said he was encouraged by actions out of Congress and believed Utah was key to pushing the issue. "The fact that we were able to pass a comprehensive immigration proposal has helped moved the dial," he said.

Bramble?s bill delays this year?s July 1 effective date of HB116, which was signed by Gov. Gary Herbert in 2011. It would allow undocumented immigrants already living in the state to apply for a state-based guest worker visa after passing a series of background checks, paying a fine of either $1,000 or $2,500 and taking some English-proficiency courses. It was signed along with a series of other immigration bills ? including an enforcement-only law that is currently tied up in federal court.

It closely mirrors what is being proposed by President Barack Obama at the national level. It was also viewed by many as the legislative spirit of the Utah Compact ? a series of principles that sought a compassionate approach to illegal immigration. Since the compact was signed in 2010, several states have signed similar measures, including Texas, Indiana and Maine.

But some who opposed the original guest worker law attempted to amend Bamble?s bill.

Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, pushed an amendment Tuesday to wait until all legal immigrants who wanted to come to the United States could clear the process first before dealing with the undocumented immigrant population ? which the Pew Hispanic Center estimates stands at about 11 million.

Madsen?s amendment failed on a voice vote.

Sen. Luz Robles, D-Salt Lake City, said pushing back the trigger date on HB116 was prudent given the $6 million price tag to put the law into effect. She also said she was encouraged that Congress would take up comprehensive reform.

"This Congress is different due to the elections," Robles said, noting the impact of the Latino vote that helped propel Obama to victory in November and the soul-searching that has hit the Republican party after GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney lost that voter bloc by an almost 3-to-1 margin.

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One of the guest worker law?s biggest critics, Sen. Steve Urquhart, R-St. George, voted to delay the start date and said he saw little value in a "rehash" of the debate over HB116.

"I lost the argument. Those things happen," Urquhart said. "In my mind, to me, if there aren?t other options out there, it doesn?t make sense to move headlong into a lawsuit ... that we know will be unsuccessful."

When HB116 was passed, legislative lawyers said there were issues with the constitutionality of the guest worker law and critics including the American Civil Liberties Union have argued that immigration is strictly the purview of the federal government.

SB225 now moves to the House.

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Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Asian firm buys site of stalled Vegas Strip casino

The Encore, left, and Wynn Hotel-Casinos are seen behind the skeleton structure of the stalled Echelon construction site, Saturday, March 2, 2013, in Las Vegas. The Genting Group announced the purchase of the nearly 90 acres on the Las Vegas Strip of the Boyd Gaming Corp.'s stalled project. The Asian conglomerate has plans for a phased, multi-billion dollar development that would include 3,500 hotel rooms, a convention center and gambling, dining and retail. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

An artists rendering provided by Steelman Partners shows plans for the development of a new hotel and casino complex on the site of the stalled Echelon project in Las Vegas. The Genting Group announced the purchase of the nearly 90 acres on the Las Vegas Strip of the Boyd Gaming Corp.'s stalled project. The Asian conglomerate has plans for a phased, multi-billion dollar development that would include 3,500 hotel rooms, a convention center and gambling, dining and retail. (AP Photo/The Rogich Communications Group)

The Trump Tower is seen framed in the skeleton of the stalled Echelon construction site, Saturday, March 2, 2013, in Las Vegas. The Genting Group announced the purchase of the nearly 90 acres on the Las Vegas Strip of the Boyd Gaming Corp.'s stalled project. The Asian conglomerate has plans for a phased, multi-billion dollar development that would include 3,500 hotel rooms, a convention center and gambling, dining and retail. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

File-This May 2009 file photo showing tourists walking past the construction site of Boyd Gaming's Echelon project in Las Vegas. A Malaysian conglomerate said Monday, March 4, 2013, it will break ground next year on a project that could breathe new economic life into a tired stretch of the Las Vegas Strip where work has stalled during the recession. The Genting Group said it will pay $350 million for the 87-acre site where the partially built Echelon project by Boyd Gaming Corp. came to a halt nearly five years ago. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong,File)

LAS VEGAS (AP) ? Panda habitats, tea gardens and red pagodas have never been part of the visual vocabulary of the Las Vegas Strip. But Sin City is about to get all three and much more as a Malaysian conglomerate prepares to build the first new mega-casino to come to town since the recession wiped out a slew of projects in 2008.

The Genting Group announced Monday that it will break ground in 2014 on the 87-acre site where the partially built Echelon project has sat for nearly five years, put on indefinite hold by Boyd Gaming Corp.

Executives said they are launching the new project despite continued softness of gambling revenue here because they are ideally positioned to capitalize on the flood of Asian tourists flocking to the Strip.

Government officials, including Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Gov. Brian Sandoval, applauded the news, saying the project could breathe new economic life into a tired stretch of the tourist corridor where several big casino projects stalled during the recession.

"I think we've turned conventional wisdom on its head today," Sandoval said, adding that he hopes the Genting project will encourage more foreign investment in the Strip.

Genting, Southeast Asia's largest casino operator, will rebrand the languishing structure Resorts World Las Vegas.

The project will feature pagoda-style roofs on soaring glass towers, at least 3,500 hotel rooms, a convention center and a 4,000-seat theater.

Genting, which paid $350 million for the property and will spend as much as $7 billion building on it, according to Senior Vice President of Development Christian Goode.

The conglomerate plans to start construction in 2014 and open in 2016, creating tens of thousands of jobs while revamping a project many thought would remain undeveloped for years.

The steel and concrete skeleton of the Echelon project has stood on the north Strip since 2008, a symbol of the initial promise and disastrous end of the Las Vegas construction boom.

The area once boasted casinos considered the cutting edge of luxury and style. But in recent years it has become the home of huge empty lots and darkened projects, including Las Vegas Plaza and Fontainebleau Las Vegas, a hulking bluish-green tower that was 70 percent finished when construction ended.

The Genting announcement is the latest sign that the stretch of Las Vegas Boulevard home to Circus Circus and the Stratosphere might be turning around. Developers also broke ground last month on renovations to the Sahara hotel-casino that closed in 2011. It is expected to reopen next year as SLS Las Vegas.

Genting said it will build on the skeleton of the Echelon to create one of the largest complexes on the Las Vegas Strip. By comparison, the CityCenter complex, which features the upscale Aria casino, spreads across 67 acres. Caesars Palace sits on 85 acres.

Las Vegas-based casino companies have been scrambling for years to cash in on the influx of Asian tourists into the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau. But Genting believes it can turn that same stream of tourists into big moneymaker back in Las Vegas.

"As China develops and grows their economy, there's a burgeoning middle class and they want to travel," Goode said. "We think Las Vegas is a natural destination."

Goode said he was not swayed by the conventional wisdom that the Strip had been overbuilt. Gambling revenue in Nevada has not yet exceeded the high it reached in 2007, but the state is attracting more visitors than ever, with the number of tourists scraping 40 million a year.

"Analysts, they have their one opinion and we have another. It's not like we're going to show up today and open something tomorrow. There's a development process and construction time and we think we're going to time it right with the overall economy" he said.

The Echelon was intended to be a mixed-use development complete with 5,000 rooms in six hotels, lush landscaping and luxury amenities. The 48-year-old Stardust resort was demolished in 2007 to make way for the $4.8 billion project that had been slated to open by 2010 next to Circus Circus.

Construction workers toiled for a year and built 12 stories on the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Desert Inn Road before the credit markets choked.

Reid called the abandoned property "really ugly," and said the Resorts World project would be a tremendous, "stupendous," boon for the region.

"International tourists, they spend more, they stay longer in our state," he said.

Genting opened its first casino in 1971 in Malaysia and now operates sites in the Philippines, United Kingdom, Singapore and the Bahamas.

It has also been expanding into the United States. The conglomerate opened a New York casino in 2011 and is pursuing a project in Miami. CEO KT Lim said the Las Vegas project would establish the company as a bicoastal player in the U.S. gambling industry.

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Hannah Dreier can be reached at http://twitter.com/hannahdreier

Associated Press

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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Long wait in Kenya vote; 19 dead in Mombasa

MOMBASA, Kenya (AP) ? Kenya's presidential election drew millions of eager voters who endured long lines to cast ballots Monday, but the vote was marred by violence that left 19 people dead, including four policemen hacked to death by machete-wielding separatists.

Officials urged voters not to be intimidated by the violence amid fears the impending election results could spark another round of the ethnic-related bloodshed in which more than 1,000 people died after the 2007 vote.

The election is the first presidential poll under a new constitution designed to prevent the ethnic violence of 2007-08. Enthusiastic voters formed long lines around the country, and election officials estimated turnout at 70 percent of 14 million registered voters.

The voting got off to a bloody start when a group of 200 separatists set a trap for police in the coastal city of Mombasa in the pre-dawn hours, Inspector General David Kimaiyo said. Four police were hacked to death with machetes, coast police boss Aggrey Adoli said.

The separatist group ? the Mombasa Republican Council ? had threatened election day attacks, and Kimaiyo said police were planning a raid "that will see the end of the MRC."

The MRC believes Kenya's coast should be an independent country. Their cause, which is not defined by religion, is fueled by the belief that political leaders in Nairobi have taken the coast's land for themselves, impoverishing indigenous residents.

In addition to the attack in Mombasa, police blamed the MRC for three deadly attacks in nearby Kilifi. An Associated Press reporter visited a morgue and saw four dead young men wearing red bandanas ? a sign of the MRC ? who had been shot to death.

An AP tally of the violence found that four police and three MRC members died in Mombasa, while six government officials, four MRC members and two civilians died in the three attacks near the coastal city of Kilifi, all according to police and mortuary officials.

After the polls closed, gunshots and an explosion rang out in the city of Garissa, near the Somali border, as gunmen stormed two polling stations, said Farah Maalim, the deputy speaker of parliament. Security forces responded to the attack and the gunmen fled.

The violence in the Mombasa and Garissa areas is separate from the ethnic violence that could break out related to election results, and which was so deadly after the 2007 vote.

The country's top two presidential candidates condemned the Mombasa attacks. Prime Minister Raila Odinga called it a "heinous act of aggression" during a historic exercise. Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta said he was discouraged by the news but he was sure the security situation would be brought under control.

Authorities flew in an additional 400 police officers to Mombasa to increase security. The United Nations restricted the movement of its staff on the coast because of the violence.

"People with ill intent must be stopped by all means," Kimaiyo said, explaining that he directed police to use their guns to stop further loss of life, a sensitive directive given that police killed more than 400 people during the 2007-08 postelection violence.

Police said the MRC was trying to suppress voter turnout, but the long lines seen across the country also formed in Mombasa.

Those lines left voters frustrated in the election's early hours. Anti-fraud computers that scan thumbprints to identify registered voters were used for the first time and appeared to be greatly slowing the process. Equipment broke down in some polling stations and power blackouts made the technology useless in others. Many voting officials had to resort to going through the old voters' register.

George Kimoi, 42, waited two hours to vote. He said it was the first time he felt his ballot would actually count, after the government upgraded ballot security measures in the wake of allegations the last vote was rigged.

"I felt that it was important to wait and vote today because we need a new government," he said.

Odinga voted at an elementary school and acknowledged what he called voting challenges.

"Never before have Kenyans turned up in such numbers," he said. "I'm sure they're going to vote for change this election."

Kenyatta gave a conciliatory message intended to help Kenyans accept the election outcome without violence: "This nation will have a president and that president will represent all Kenyans."

Results are not expected until Tuesday or Wednesday. A run-off between the top presidential contenders is likely in April, unless one unexpectedly captures more than 50 percent of ballots from among the pool of eight candidates.

Monday's separatist violence is different from the tribal, postelection violence experienced five years ago. The ethnic violence could still break out if Odinga or Kenyatta supporters feel their candidate was cheated out of a win.

In Kilifi, Nichodemus Shanga had hoped to vote at a primary school, but an MRC attack left several bodies lying on the ground, and he said officials didn't immediately remove them. Voting officials fled.

"I feel very bad because it is my right to vote. We came here at 5 a.m. asking them to remove the bodies so that we can vote, but they didn't do that and it has created a lot of tension and fear," he said, noting that residents fear a police backlash.

The chairman of the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, Ahmed Issack Hassan, urged voters not to be intimidated by the violence. He also told poll workers they must ensure voters don't spend hours in line. Many polling stations were kept open after the 5 p.m. closing time to accommodate late starts and long lines.

The country's leaders have been working for months to reduce election-related tensions, but multiple factors make more postelection violence possible. The tribes of the top two presidential candidates have a long history of tense relations, and 47 new governor races are being held, increasing the chances of electoral problems at the local level.

One big electoral factor is that Kenyatta faces charges at the International Criminal Court for allegedly orchestrating Kenya's 2007-08 postelection violence. If he wins, the United States and Europe could scale back relations with Kenya, and Kenyatta may have to spend a significant portion of his presidency on trial at The Hague. Kenyatta's running mate, William Ruto, also faces charges at the ICC.

Pictures from across the country showed lines of voters snaking through fields, down streets and around corners.

Arthur Shakwira said he got in line at 4 a.m. in Kibera, Nairobi's largest slum, but left over confusion about which line to stand in. "We should prepare these voting areas sooner," Shakwira said. "Confusion. All the time it's confusion."

An election observer from a Ugandan group called the National Consultative Council, Christopher Kibanzanga, said he was impressed by the turnout.

"This can only be likened to South Africa when (President Nelson) Mandela was elected. The people have turned up in large numbers. The spirit of patriotism and nationalism has come back," Kibanzanga said.

Odinga's acrimonious loss to President Mwai Kibaki in 2007 triggered violence that ended only after the international community stepped in. Odinga was named prime minister in a coalition government led by Kibaki, with Kenyatta named deputy prime minister.

The Kenyatta-Odinga rivalry goes back decades. Kenyatta is an ethnic Kikuyu who is the son of Kenya's founding president. Odinga is an ethnic Luo whose father was the country's first vice president. Polls show the two in a close race, with support for each in the mid-40-percent range.

Most voters in Kibera ?like Amos Achola, who said he arrived at the polling station at 2 a.m. ? support Odinga.

"I think he wins but if he doesn't win I'll abide by the outcome," Achola said. "The other guy is also a Kenyan. If Kenyatta wins I'll accept it but I won't like. But I don't want violence."

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Straziuso reported from Nairobi. Rodney Muhumuza contributed from Gatunda. Daud Yussuf contributed from Garissa.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/long-wait-kenya-vote-19-dead-mombasa-160059987--politics.html

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Biden on Iran threat: Obama is not bluffing

Vice President Joe Biden, projected on screens, gestures as he addresses the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2013 Policy Conference, Monday, March 4, 2013, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. speaks during a foreign policy discussion at the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2013 Policy Conference, Monday, March 4, 2013, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Vice President Joe Biden gets a hug from Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak before he addressed the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2013 Policy Conference, Monday, March 4, 2013, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. waves before speaking at a foreign policy discussion at the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) 2013 Policy Conference, Monday, March 4, 2013, at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

WASHINGTON (AP) ? Seeking to reassure anxious Israelis and their American supporters, Vice President Joe Biden vowed Monday that the United States won't back down from its pledge to use military action to thwart Iran's nuclear program should all other options fail.

"President Barack Obama is not bluffing," he said.

In a prelude to Obama's upcoming trip to Israel ? his first as president ? Biden told a powerful pro-Israel lobby that the U.S. doesn't want a war with Iran, but that the window for diplomacy is closing. He said prevention, not containment, is the only outcome the U.S. will accept.

But in a sign the U.S. is still reluctant to embroil itself in another Mideast military effort, Biden cautioned more than 13,000 Israel supporters at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's annual conference that if Israel or the U.S. acts too hastily, without exhausting every other reasonable option, they could risk losing the backing of the international community.

"That matters because God forbid we have to act, it's important that the rest of the world is with us," Biden said to muted applause.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, speaking to the conference by video link from Jerusalem, pushed back against such reluctance, reflecting the tension still present between the U.S. and its closest Mideast ally as they seek a united front to stave off Iran's nuclear program.

"From the bottom of my heart and from the clarity of my brain, words alone will not stop Iran. Sanctions alone will not stop Iran," Netanyahu said.

The U.S. and world nations have imposed crippling sanctions on Iran's oil and financial industries in hopes of forcing Tehran back to the negotiating table and persuading it to give up nuclear ambitions. Netanyahu has warned that the world has until this summer ? at the latest ? to keep Iran from building a bomb, and has repeatedly hinted at Israel's willingness to launch a military strike to stop it, an endeavor the United States likely would be dragged into.

Participants in the conference were struck by Netanyahu's tough talk, which suggested that military action was inevitable.

"I'm afraid there is going to be something drastic that could happen," said Barbara Rogan, a retired librarian from Westport, Conn. "Iran feels, I think, that they have nothing to lose while forging ahead. The sanctions aren't enough to frighten them."

But Natalie Telson, a Columbia University sophomore from Tustin, Calif., suggested that Netanyahu's saber-rattling was driven in part by his audience ? "12,000 of the most pro-Israel active people in the country."

Iran insists that its nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes such as power generation and medical uses, but the head of the U.N. nuclear agency said this month he cannot guarantee all of Iran's activities are peaceful unless Tehran increases cooperation.

The White House sees Obama's visit later in March to Israel, Jordan and the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories as an opportunity to reset relations with Netanyahu, who has frequently bumped heads with Obama, and to strengthen ties with Israelis, many of whom bristled at Obama's early efforts to reach out to the Arab world and his decision not to visit Israel during his first term as president.

White House officials say Obama won't be bringing an ambitious new peace plan when he travels to Jerusalem, but improving relations with Israel and its leader could open the door to a stepped up U.S. effort to facilitate negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians.

"We will continue to oppose any efforts to establish a state of Palestine through unilateral actions," Biden said, referring to Palestinian efforts to seek U.N. recognition that the United States has staunchly opposed. "There is no shortcut to peace."

Obama spoke to pro-Israel group's conference last year while running for re-election, but this year sent Biden, who vowed a nimble and resolute U.S. response to fluctuating threats in Iran, Syria and Egypt. He cast a vote of confidence in incoming Secretary of State John Kerry ? "You're going to be happy with Kerry" ? and said only through engagement would the U.S. navigate the challenges the Arab Spring presents.

Biden made no mention of the newest member of Obama's second-term national security team, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, whom opponents cast as insufficiently supportive of Israel. Hagel also apologized for saying the "Jewish lobby" intimidates members of the Senate into favoring actions contrary to U.S. interests.

Speaking on a panel shortly before Biden's address, Republican Sen. John McCain, a leading foe of Hagel's, said, "we need members of the national security team who are pro-Israel, not anti-Israel."

Logan said she was so upset by the nomination of Hagel that she called the White House to complain. Frank Ponder of Los Angeles said he was reassured by Obama's first-term team of Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

As for Kerry and Hagel, Ponder said both were "brand new" and he would wait and see.

Critical for Hagel's success in winning Senate confirmation was the fact that AIPAC never publicly took a stand on the nomination.

Anna Etra, a Barnard College student from Los Angeles, said that was a "a very strategic move" by AIPAC which typically "reaches out to incumbents and those competing against them."

Days after the U.S. announced a substantial shift in policy in Syria to provide non-lethal aid directly to rebels battling President Bashar Assad, Biden reiterated that Assad must be ousted, but made clear that uncertainty about elements of the Syrian opposition is still keeping the U.S. from arming the rebels.

"We are not signing up for one murderer's gang replacing another in Damascus," Biden said.

Biden expressed a similar degree of skepticism about Egypt, where U.S. hopes that Islamist President Mohammed Morsi could play a powerful leadership role in the Mideast were dampened after anti-Semitic remarks Morsi made in 2010 were publicized and political protesters have questioned his commitment to democracy.

"We're not looking at what's happening in Egypt through rose-colored glasses," Biden said. "Our eyes are wide open. We have no illusions about the challenges that we face, but we also know this: There's no legitimate alternative at this point to engagement."

His comment came just one day after Kerry announced the release of $250 million in U.S. aid to Egypt.

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Animal CPR Given To A Tapir, Cheetah, Bird And Other Animals

A very fortunate pigeon was on the receiving end of CPR last month when an Australian woman noticed the bird had stopped breathing.

"I gave him probably three or four little breaths and pumped his little chest a few times and he started to come back to life," Gail Daniell told Adelaide Now.

Pet CPR isn't a new thing. Many organizations like the Red Cross offer pet first aid classes for dogs and cats that include CPR techniques (bird resuscitation hasn't been offered quite yet).

Here are a few tips if you ever find your pet in need of some lifesaving aid, courtesy of the American Animal Hospital Association.

CPR should only be given if your pet is not breathing and has no pulse.

Check to see if the animal is choking on a foreign object.

If an animal is not breathing, place it on a firm surface with its left side up. Check for a heartbeat by listening at the area where the elbow touches the chest. If you hear a heartbeat but not breathing, close the animal?s mouth and breathe directly into its nose--not the mouth--until the chest expands. Repeat 12 to 15 times per minute.

If there is no pulse, apply heart massage at the same time. The heart is located in the lower half of the chest, behind the elbow of the front left leg. Place one hand below the heart to support the chest. Place other hand over the heart and compress gently.

To massage the hearts of cats and other tiny pets, compress the chest with the thumb and forefingers of one hand. Apply heart massage 80-120 times per minute for larger animals and 100-150 per minute for smaller ones. Alternate heart massage with breathing.
Please note: Even in the hands of well-trained veterinary health professionals, the success of resuscitation is very low overall. Success may be slightly higher in the cases of drowning or electrical shock.

Take a look at some of the more unique situations where an animal received CPR from a human below.

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Monday, March 4, 2013

Genetic risk factors for common eye disorder come into focus

Mar. 3, 2013 ? An international group of investigators has identified seven new genetic regions associated with age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common cause of blindness in older individuals. The findings, reported online March 3 in Nature Genetics, could point to new biological pathways and therapeutic targets for AMD.

The AMD Gene Consortium, a network of 18 research groups supported by the National Eye Institute, also confirmed 12 genetic loci identified in previous studies. The study represents the most comprehensive genome-wide analysis of genetic variations associated with AMD.

The consortium's efforts have now explained up to 65 percent of the genetics of AMD, said Jonathan Haines, Ph.D., director of the Vanderbilt Center for Human Genetics Research.

In addition to genetic causes, which may account for about half of all cases of AMD, risk factors include age, smoking, high blood pressure, obesity and diet.

"We're getting closer and closer to understanding the full list of risk factors for AMD," said Haines, one of the lead authors of the study and principal investigator of the coordinating center for the consortium.

AMD is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that kills photoreceptor cells in the macula -- the region of the retina responsible for sharp, detailed central vision. As AMD advances, it robs individuals of the central vision necessary for everyday activities like reading, driving, watching television and identifying faces. About 2 million people in the United States have advanced AMD, according to the National Eye Institute.

Haines and others discovered the first genetic risk factor for AMD in 2005 -- a gene called Complement Factor H, which is involved in inflammatory signaling pathways. Since then, researchers have identified a number of other genetic loci associated with AMD, but the studies usually involved small numbers of individuals.

"It was very clear that if we wanted to make real progress in understanding the genetics of AMD, we needed to pull all of these various datasets together -- which is what the AMD Gene Consortium has done," Haines said.

A strength of the AMD Gene Consortium, Haines noted, is the participation of groups from all over the world. The consortium combined existing genome-wide association scans (GWAS) and performed additional genotyping studies. The researchers examined genetic data from more than 17,000 patients with advanced AMD and more than 60,000 people without AMD.

The loci they identified include genes involved in immune system signaling, lipid metabolism, remodeling of the matrix that surrounds cells and blood vessel development. The researchers are continuing to study the genetic regions, Haines said.

"This paper is a global population look at genetic loci, and now we're drilling down to the details and discovering rare variants in genes that may suggest how they participate in causing AMD," Haines said.

The hope, Haines said, is that a full understanding of genetic and environmental risk factors will allow the computation of an AMD risk score. Several companies already offer tests that generate risk scores, but they are based on older information.

"If we can identify the people who are at greatly increased risk for AMD, perhaps we can begin to do clinical trials to test treatments that may prevent the disease," Haines said.

Current treatments for AMD help stabilize the disease, but they do not reverse its course. New treatments based on the genetic findings are in development, Haines said.

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