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A Study of VEGF Gene Polymorphism in Egyptian Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy.
Ophthalmic genetics - 1 Jan 2015
Shahin Rasha Mohamad Hosny, Abdelhakim Mohamad Amr Salah Eddin, Owid Mohammed El Sayed Mahmoud, El-Nady Mohamed
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BACKGROUND: There are subgroups of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) in whom diabetic retinopathy (DR) does not develop despite poor long-term control of their disease, while others exercising fairly good control, develop retinopathy. So, we aimed to investigate the association of DR with -2578 polymorphism of the vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) gene, which has been reported to be associated with...
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