F Errera IV, LH Canani, MER Silva, E Yeh, W … - Diabetes Care, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—No evidence of association between −634G>C/VEGF and the presence of diabetic retinopathy
or type 2 diabetes was observed (P > 0.05). However, CC homozygous for the SNP −634G>C was
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P Olmos, MJ Bastías, V Vollrath, L Toro, A Trincado, … - Diabetes research and …, 2006 - Elsevier DNAs of 96 control subjects and 53 long-standing (duration 17.9 ± 5.4 years) type-2 diabetic
patients were analyzed by PCR-RFLP with BfaI enzyme. Retinopathy was graded with 2-eye, 7-field
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S Ramprasad, V Radha, RA Mathias, PP Majumder, … - Eye, 2006 - nature.com The allelic frequencies of -429T are 0.83 in NGT, 0.84 in DM and 0.85 in DR subjects, and that of
-374T are 0.93 in NGT, 0.92 in DM and 0.88 in DR subjects. The -374 polymorphism was found to be
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DM Hallman, E Boerwinkle, VH Gonzalez, BEK Klein, R … - Diabetes, 2007 - Am Diabetes Assoc We conducted a genome-wide linkage scan for genes contributing to retinopathy risk using 794
diabetes case subjects from 393 Mexican-American families from Starr County, Texas, having at least
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KG dos Santos, LH Canani, JL Gross, B Tschiedel, … - Molecular Genetics and …, 2006 - Elsevier Diabetic retinopathy is a sight-threatening chronic complication of diabetes mellitus and is the
leading cause of acquired blindness in adults. The −106C > T polymorphism in the promoter region
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AJ McKnight, AP Maxwell, CC Patterson, HR Brady, … - Journal of diabetes and its …, 2007 - Elsevier Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) is reported to be implicated in the development of
diabetic nephropathy. We performed a case-control study to determine if VEGF-2578C→A,
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- ►diabetesjournals.org I Rietveld, MK Ikram, JR Vingerling, A Hofman, HAP … - Diabetes, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc The role of IGF-I in the pathogenesis of diabetic retinopathy is unclear. We studied, prospectively,
the relationship between an IGF-I gene polymorphism, retinal vessel diameters, and incident diabetic
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- ►oxfordjournals.org M Buraczynska, P Ksiazek, I Baranowicz- … - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2006 - ERA-EDTA Results. The distribution of the VEGF DD genotype was significantly different in patients with
diabetic retinopathy compared with healthy controls, entire diabetic group and patients with no
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S Yamagishi, S Amano, Y Inagaki, T Okamoto, … - International journal of …, 2002 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Pigment epithelium-derived factor (PEDF) has recently been shown to be the most potent inhibitor of
angiogenesis in the mammalian eye. We, along with others, have very recently found that loss of PEDF
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T Awata, S Kurihara, N Takata, T Neda, H Iizuka, T … - … and Biophysical Research …, 2005 - Elsevier Since vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) has a strong effect on induction of vascular
permeability, VEGF is an attractive candidate gene for development of diabetic macular edema (ME).
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