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Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor Gene Polymorphism is not Associated with Diabetic Retinopathy in Egyptian Patients.
Middle East African journal of ophthalmology - 1 Jan 2000
Abdel Fattah Rana Ahmed, Eltanamly Rasha Mounir, Nabih Mostafa Hamed, Kamal Manal Mohammed
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PURPOSE: Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) was implicated as a major contributor to the development of diabetic retinopathy (DR). This study investigated whether single nucleotide polymorphisms of A allele of rs699947 or G allele of rs10434 in the VEGF gene were associated with DR in Egyptian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). METHODS: This is a case-controlled study which was performed at Cairo...
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