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Association of manganese superoxide dismutase gene polymorphism (V16A) with diabetic macular edema in Korean type 2 diabetic patients.
Metabolism: clinical and experimental - 1 Dec 2006
Lee Seong Jin, Choi Moon Gi
Abstract excerpt
This study was designed to investigate whether V16A polymorphism of the manganese superoxide dismutase (Mn-SOD) gene is associated with the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus and with progression of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and diabetic macular edema (DME). We simultaneously analyzed insertion/deletion polymorphism of the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) gene in the 16th intron to avoid its confounding...
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