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Native American ancestry is associated with severe diabetic retinopathy in Latinos.
Investigative ophthalmology & visual science - 21 Aug 2014
Gao Xiaoyi, Gauderman W James, Marjoram Paul, Torres Mina, Chen Yii-Der I, Taylor Kent D, Rotter Jerome I, Varma Rohit
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PURPOSE: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a leading cause of blindness in working age adults. Studies have observed that Latinos have a higher prevalence of DR than whites. The purpose of this study is to test the association between genetic admixture and severe DR in Latinos with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). METHODS: We conducted a case-control study using 944 T2DM subjects from the Los Angeles Latino Eye Study....
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