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Diabetic retinopathy is not associated with carbonic anhydrase gene polymorphisms.
Molecular vision - 13 Jun 2009
Abhary S, Burdon K P, Gupta A, Petrovsky N, Craig J E
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Carbonic anhydrase is elevated in the vitreous of patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR). This study aimed to determine if common polymorphisms in the carbonic anhydrase (CA) gene influence susceptibility to diabetic retinopathy (DR). METHODS: In this multicentered study, a total of 235 control subjects with no DR, 158 subjects with nonproliferative DR (NPDR), 132 with proliferative DR...
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