Splicing factor polymorphisms, the control of VEGF isoforms and association with angiogenic eye disease

Current Eye Research

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 328-335

  Carter, J G ^a   Cherry, J ^b   Williams, K ^b   Turner, S ^a   Bates, D O ^a   Churchill, A J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL EYE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Diabetes; Macular degeneration; Polymorphism; Retinopathy

Indexed keywords

DNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALLELE; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENATURING HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; EYE DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SPLICING DEFECT; TRANSGENE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHOROIDAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; CHROMATOGRAPHY, HIGH PRESSURE LIQUID; DIABETIC RETINOPATHY; EXONS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HETERODUPLEX ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PHOSPHOPROTEINS; PILOT PROJECTS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952771585     PISSN: 02713683     EISSN: 14602202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/02713683.2010.548892     Document Type: Article

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