Stephen Akafo

Affiliations

Unit of Ophthalmology, Department of Surgery, University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana.

Publications (7)

A multi-cohort genome-wide association study in African ancestry individuals reveals risk loci for primary open-angle glaucoma.

Cell

Avec: Shefali S Verma , Harini V Gudiseva , Venkata R M Chavali , Rebecca J Salowe , Yuki Bradford , Lindsay Guare , Anastasia Lucas , David W Collins , Vrathasha Vrathasha , Rohini M Nair , Sonika Rathi , Bingxin Zhao , Jie He , Roy Lee , Selam Zenebe-Gete , Anita S Bowman , Caitlin P McHugh , Michael C Zody , Maxwell Pistilli , Naira Khachatryan , Ebenezer Daniel , Windell Murphy , Jeffrey Henderer , Auteur inconnu , Tyler G Kinzy , Sudha K Iyengar , Neal S Peachey , Auteur inconnu , Kent D Taylor , Xiuqing Guo , Yii-Der Ida Chen , Linda Zangwill , Christopher Girkin , Radha Ayyagari , Jeffrey Liebmann , Chimd M Chuka-Okosa , Susan E Williams , Stephen Akafo , Donald L Budenz , Olusola O Olawoye , Michele Ramsay , Adeyinka Ashaye , Onoja M Akpa , Tin Aung , Janey L Wiggs , Ahmara G Ross , Qi N Cui , Victoria Addis , Amanda Lehman , Eydie Miller-Ellis , Prithvi S Sankar , Scott M Williams , Gui-Shuang Ying , Jessica Cooke Bailey , Jerome I Rotter , Robert Weinreb , Chiea Chuen Khor , Michael A Hauser , Marylyn D Ritchie , Joan M O'Brien

Comparison of the Morphology of the Foveal Pit Between African and Caucasian Populations.

Translational vision science & technology

Avec: Moussa A Zouache , Giuliana Silvestri , Winfried M Amoaku , Vittorio Silvestri , William C Hubbard , Christian Pappas , Stephen Akafo , Seth Lartey , Rebecca R Mastey , Joseph Carroll , Gregory S Hageman

Safety of intravitreal ziv-aflibercept in choroido-retinal vascular diseases: A randomised double-blind intervention study.

PloS one

Avec: Imoro Zeba Braimah , Ernest Kenu , Kwesi N Amissah-Arthur , Stephen Akafo , Kwaku Oppong Kwarteng , Winfried M Amoaku

Genome-wide meta-analysis identifies 127 open-angle glaucoma loci with consistent effect across ancestries.

Nature communications

Avec: Puya Gharahkhani , Eric Jorgenson , Pirro Hysi , Anthony P Khawaja , Sarah Pendergrass , Xikun Han , Jue Sheng Ong , Alex W Hewitt , Ayellet V Segrè , John M Rouhana , Andrew R Hamel , Robert P Igo , Helene Choquet , Ayub Qassim , Navya S Josyula , Jessica N Cooke Bailey , Pieter W M Bonnemaijer , Adriana Iglesias , Owen M Siggs , Terri L Young , Veronique Vitart , Alberta A H J Thiadens , Juha Karjalainen , Steffen Uebe , Ronald B Melles , K Saidas Nair , Robert Luben , Mark Simcoe , Nishani Amersinghe , Angela J Cree , Rene Hohn , Alicia Poplawski , Li Jia Chen , Shi-Song Rong , Tin Aung , Eranga Nishanthie Vithana , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Auteur inconnu , Gen Tamiya , Yukihiro Shiga , Masayuki Yamamoto , Toru Nakazawa , Hannah Currant , Ewan Birney , Xin Wang , Adam Auton , Michelle K Lupton , Nicholas G Martin , Adeyinka Ashaye , Olusola Olawoye , Susan E Williams , Stephen Akafo , Michele Ramsay , Kazuki Hashimoto , Yoichiro Kamatani , Masato Akiyama , Yukihide Momozawa , Paul J Foster , Peng T Khaw , James E Morgan , Nicholas G Strouthidis , Peter Kraft , Jae H Kang , Chi Pui Pang , Francesca Pasutto , Paul Mitchell , Andrew J Lotery , Aarno Palotie , Cornelia van Duijn , Jonathan L Haines , Chris Hammond , Louis R Pasquale , Caroline C W Klaver , Michael Hauser , Chiea Chuen Khor , David A Mackey , Michiaki Kubo , Ching-Yu Cheng , Jamie E Craig , Stuart MacGregor , Janey L Wiggs

Association of Genetic Variants With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Among Individuals With African Ancestry.

JAMA

Avec: Auteur inconnu , Michael A Hauser , R Rand Allingham , Tin Aung , Carly J Van Der Heide , Kent D Taylor , Jerome I Rotter , Shih-Hsiu J Wang , Pieter W M Bonnemaijer , Susan E Williams , Sadiq M Abdullahi , Khaled K Abu-Amero , Michael G Anderson , Stephen Akafo , Mahmoud B Alhassan , Ifeoma Asimadu , Radha Ayyagari , Saydou Bakayoko , Prisca Biangoup Nyamsi , Donald W Bowden , William C Bromley , Donald L Budenz , Trevor R Carmichael , Pratap Challa , Yii-Der Ida Chen , Chimdi M Chuka-Okosa , Jessica N Cooke Bailey , Vital Paulino Costa , Dianne A Cruz , Harvey DuBiner , John F Ervin , Robert M Feldman , Miles Flamme-Wiese , Douglas E Gaasterland , Sarah J Garnai , Christopher A Girkin , Nouhoum Guirou , Xiuqing Guo , Jonathan L Haines , Christopher J Hammond , Leon Herndon , Thomas J Hoffmann , Christine M Hulette , Abba Hydara , Robert P Igo , Eric Jorgenson , Joyce Kabwe , Ngoy Janvier Kilangalanga , Nkiru Kizor-Akaraiwe , Rachel W Kuchtey , Hasnaa Lamari , Zheng Li , Jeffrey M Liebmann , Yutao Liu , Ruth J F Loos , Monica B Melo , Sayoko E Moroi , Joseph M Msosa , Robert F Mullins , Girish Nadkarni , Abdoulaye Napo , Maggie C Y Ng , Hugo Freire Nunes , Ebenezer Obeng-Nyarkoh , Anthony Okeke , Suhanya Okeke , Olusegun Olaniyi , Olusola Olawoye , Mariana Borges Oliveira , Louise R Pasquale , Rodolfo A Perez-Grossmann , Margaret A Pericak-Vance , Xue Qin , Michele Ramsay , Serge Resnikoff , Julia E Richards , Rui Barroso Schimiti , Kar Seng Sim , William E Sponsel , Paulo Vinicius Svidnicki , Alberta A H J Thiadens , Nkechinyere J Uche , Cornelia M van Duijn , José Paulo Cabral de Vasconcellos , Janey L Wiggs , Linda M Zangwill , Neil Risch , Dan Milea , Adeyinka Ashaye , Caroline C W Klaver , Robert N Weinreb , Allison E Ashley Koch , John H Fingert , Chiea Chuen Khor

Characterization of West African Crystalline Macular Dystrophy in the Ghanaian Population.

Ophthalmology. Retina

Avec: Winfried M Amoaku , Amrit Sampalli , Vittorio Silvestri , Laura N Cushley , Stephen Akafo , Kwesi N Amissah-Arthur , Seth Lartey , Courtney N Hageman , William C Hubbard , Chris M Pappas , Moussa A Zouache , Michael Stevenson , Gregory S Hageman , Giuliana Silvestri , Auteur inconnu

Vitreomacular interface abnormalities in the Ghanaian African.

Eye (London, England)

Avec: Winfried M Amoaku , Laura Cushley , Vittorio Silvestri , Stephen Akafo , Kwesi N Amissah-Arthur , Seth Lartey , Courtney N Hageman , Christian M Pappas , William C Hubbard , Paul S Bernstein , Albert Vitale , Megan Roberts , Gianni Virgili , Gregory S Hageman , Giuliana Silvestri , Auteur inconnu

Réseau de co-auteurs

None None 12 collaborations

Winfried M Amoaku 4 collaborations

Susan E Williams 3 collaborations

Michele Ramsay 3 collaborations

Adeyinka Ashaye 3 collaborations

Tin Aung 3 collaborations

Janey L Wiggs 3 collaborations

Chiea Chuen Khor 3 collaborations

Giuliana Silvestri 3 collaborations

Vittorio Silvestri 3 collaborations

William C Hubbard 3 collaborations

Seth Lartey 3 collaborations

Gregory S Hageman 3 collaborations

Kwesi N Amissah-Arthur 3 collaborations

Kent D Taylor 2 collaborations

Xiuqing Guo 2 collaborations

Yii-Der Ida Chen 2 collaborations

Radha Ayyagari 2 collaborations

Donald L Budenz 2 collaborations

Jerome I Rotter 2 collaborations

Michael A Hauser 2 collaborations

Moussa A Zouache 2 collaborations

Eric Jorgenson 2 collaborations

Robert P Igo 2 collaborations

Jessica N Cooke Bailey 2 collaborations

Pieter W M Bonnemaijer 2 collaborations

Alberta A H J Thiadens 2 collaborations

Olusola Olawoye 2 collaborations

Jonathan L Haines 2 collaborations

Caroline C W Klaver 2 collaborations

Courtney N Hageman 2 collaborations

Shefali S Verma 1 collaboration

Harini V Gudiseva 1 collaboration

Venkata R M Chavali 1 collaboration

Rebecca J Salowe 1 collaboration

Yuki Bradford 1 collaboration

Lindsay Guare 1 collaboration

Anastasia Lucas 1 collaboration

David W Collins 1 collaboration

Vrathasha Vrathasha 1 collaboration

Rohini M Nair 1 collaboration

Sonika Rathi 1 collaboration

Bingxin Zhao 1 collaboration

Jie He 1 collaboration

Roy Lee 1 collaboration

Selam Zenebe-Gete 1 collaboration

Anita S Bowman 1 collaboration

Caitlin P McHugh 1 collaboration

Michael C Zody 1 collaboration

Maxwell Pistilli 1 collaboration

Naira Khachatryan 1 collaboration

Ebenezer Daniel 1 collaboration

Windell Murphy 1 collaboration

Jeffrey Henderer 1 collaboration

Tyler G Kinzy 1 collaboration

Sudha K Iyengar 1 collaboration

Neal S Peachey 1 collaboration

Linda Zangwill 1 collaboration

Christopher Girkin 1 collaboration

Jeffrey Liebmann 1 collaboration

Chimd M Chuka-Okosa 1 collaboration

Olusola O Olawoye 1 collaboration

Onoja M Akpa 1 collaboration

Ahmara G Ross 1 collaboration

Qi N Cui 1 collaboration

Victoria Addis 1 collaboration

Amanda Lehman 1 collaboration

Eydie Miller-Ellis 1 collaboration

Prithvi S Sankar 1 collaboration

Scott M Williams 1 collaboration

Gui-Shuang Ying 1 collaboration

Jessica Cooke Bailey 1 collaboration

Robert Weinreb 1 collaboration

Marylyn D Ritchie 1 collaboration

Joan M O'Brien 1 collaboration

Christian Pappas 1 collaboration

Rebecca R Mastey 1 collaboration

Joseph Carroll 1 collaboration

Imoro Zeba Braimah 1 collaboration

Ernest Kenu 1 collaboration

Kwaku Oppong Kwarteng 1 collaboration

Puya Gharahkhani 1 collaboration

Pirro Hysi 1 collaboration

Anthony P Khawaja 1 collaboration

Sarah Pendergrass 1 collaboration

Xikun Han 1 collaboration

Jue Sheng Ong 1 collaboration

Alex W Hewitt 1 collaboration

Ayellet V Segrè 1 collaboration

John M Rouhana 1 collaboration

Andrew R Hamel 1 collaboration

Helene Choquet 1 collaboration

Ayub Qassim 1 collaboration

Navya S Josyula 1 collaboration

Adriana Iglesias 1 collaboration

Owen M Siggs 1 collaboration

Terri L Young 1 collaboration

Veronique Vitart 1 collaboration

Juha Karjalainen 1 collaboration

Steffen Uebe 1 collaboration

Ronald B Melles 1 collaboration

K Saidas Nair 1 collaboration

Robert Luben 1 collaboration

Mark Simcoe 1 collaboration

Nishani Amersinghe 1 collaboration

Angela J Cree 1 collaboration

Rene Hohn 1 collaboration

Alicia Poplawski 1 collaboration

Li Jia Chen 1 collaboration

Shi-Song Rong 1 collaboration

Eranga Nishanthie Vithana 1 collaboration

Gen Tamiya 1 collaboration

Yukihiro Shiga 1 collaboration

Masayuki Yamamoto 1 collaboration

Toru Nakazawa 1 collaboration

Hannah Currant 1 collaboration

Ewan Birney 1 collaboration

Xin Wang 1 collaboration

Adam Auton 1 collaboration

Michelle K Lupton 1 collaboration

Nicholas G Martin 1 collaboration

Kazuki Hashimoto 1 collaboration

Yoichiro Kamatani 1 collaboration

Masato Akiyama 1 collaboration

Yukihide Momozawa 1 collaboration

Paul J Foster 1 collaboration

Peng T Khaw 1 collaboration

James E Morgan 1 collaboration

Nicholas G Strouthidis 1 collaboration

Peter Kraft 1 collaboration

Jae H Kang 1 collaboration

Chi Pui Pang 1 collaboration

Francesca Pasutto 1 collaboration

Paul Mitchell 1 collaboration

Andrew J Lotery 1 collaboration

Aarno Palotie 1 collaboration

Cornelia van Duijn 1 collaboration

Chris Hammond 1 collaboration

Louis R Pasquale 1 collaboration

Michael Hauser 1 collaboration

David A Mackey 1 collaboration

Michiaki Kubo 1 collaboration

Ching-Yu Cheng 1 collaboration

Jamie E Craig 1 collaboration

Stuart MacGregor 1 collaboration

R Rand Allingham 1 collaboration

Carly J Van Der Heide 1 collaboration

Shih-Hsiu J Wang 1 collaboration

Sadiq M Abdullahi 1 collaboration

Khaled K Abu-Amero 1 collaboration

Michael G Anderson 1 collaboration

Mahmoud B Alhassan 1 collaboration

Ifeoma Asimadu 1 collaboration

Saydou Bakayoko 1 collaboration

Prisca Biangoup Nyamsi 1 collaboration

Donald W Bowden 1 collaboration

William C Bromley 1 collaboration

Trevor R Carmichael 1 collaboration

Pratap Challa 1 collaboration

Chimdi M Chuka-Okosa 1 collaboration

Vital Paulino Costa 1 collaboration

Dianne A Cruz 1 collaboration

Harvey DuBiner 1 collaboration

John F Ervin 1 collaboration

Robert M Feldman 1 collaboration

Miles Flamme-Wiese 1 collaboration

Douglas E Gaasterland 1 collaboration

Sarah J Garnai 1 collaboration

Christopher A Girkin 1 collaboration

Nouhoum Guirou 1 collaboration

Christopher J Hammond 1 collaboration

Leon Herndon 1 collaboration

Thomas J Hoffmann 1 collaboration

Christine M Hulette 1 collaboration

Abba Hydara 1 collaboration

Joyce Kabwe 1 collaboration

Ngoy Janvier Kilangalanga 1 collaboration

Nkiru Kizor-Akaraiwe 1 collaboration

Rachel W Kuchtey 1 collaboration

Hasnaa Lamari 1 collaboration

Zheng Li 1 collaboration

Jeffrey M Liebmann 1 collaboration

Yutao Liu 1 collaboration

Ruth J F Loos 1 collaboration

Monica B Melo 1 collaboration

Sayoko E Moroi 1 collaboration

Joseph M Msosa 1 collaboration

Robert F Mullins 1 collaboration

Girish Nadkarni 1 collaboration

Abdoulaye Napo 1 collaboration

Maggie C Y Ng 1 collaboration

Hugo Freire Nunes 1 collaboration

Ebenezer Obeng-Nyarkoh 1 collaboration

Anthony Okeke 1 collaboration

Suhanya Okeke 1 collaboration

Olusegun Olaniyi 1 collaboration

Mariana Borges Oliveira 1 collaboration

Louise R Pasquale 1 collaboration

Rodolfo A Perez-Grossmann 1 collaboration

Margaret A Pericak-Vance 1 collaboration

Xue Qin 1 collaboration

Serge Resnikoff 1 collaboration

Julia E Richards 1 collaboration

Rui Barroso Schimiti 1 collaboration

Kar Seng Sim 1 collaboration

William E Sponsel 1 collaboration

Paulo Vinicius Svidnicki 1 collaboration

Nkechinyere J Uche 1 collaboration

Cornelia M van Duijn 1 collaboration

José Paulo Cabral de Vasconcellos 1 collaboration

Linda M Zangwill 1 collaboration

Neil Risch 1 collaboration

Dan Milea 1 collaboration

Robert N Weinreb 1 collaboration

Allison E Ashley Koch 1 collaboration

John H Fingert 1 collaboration

Amrit Sampalli 1 collaboration

Laura N Cushley 1 collaboration

Chris M Pappas 1 collaboration

Michael Stevenson 1 collaboration

Laura Cushley 1 collaboration

Christian M Pappas 1 collaboration

Paul S Bernstein 1 collaboration

Albert Vitale 1 collaboration

Megan Roberts 1 collaboration

Gianni Virgili 1 collaboration