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Candidate gene association study for diabetic retinopathy in Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes.
Molecular vision - 1 Jan 2014
Yang Xiufen, Deng Yu, Gu Hong, Ren Xuetao, Li Na, Lim Apiradee, Snellingen Torkel, Liu Xipu, Wang Ningli, Liu Ningpu
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PURPOSE: To investigate whether variants in a set of eight candidate genes are associated with diabetic retinopathy (DR) in a cohort of Chinese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS: Case-control study. Patients with T2DM were recruited from the Desheng community in urban Beijing and assigned into a DR group or diabetic without retinopathy (DWR) group, based on the duration of diabetes and...
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