Genetic insights into age-related macular degeneration: Controversies addressing risk, causality, and therapeutics

Molecular Aspects of Medicine

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 467-486

  Gorin, Michael B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN E; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHEMOKINE; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA; RANIBIZUMAB; TOLL LIKE RECEPTOR; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; VITAMIN D;

AGE RELATED MACULOPATHY SUSCEPTIBILITY 2 GENE; APOLIPOPROTEIN E GENE; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPLEMENT ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY; COMPLEMENT FACTOR H GENE; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG EFFECT; EXUDATIVE MACULAR DEGENERATION; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SCREENING; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HTRA1 GENE; HUMAN; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNATE IMMUNITY; IRON METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOGENETICS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; RARE DISEASE; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TREATMENT PLANNING;

DISEASE PROGRESSION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC TESTING; HUMANS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; PHENOTYPE; RISK FACTORS;

CITRUS MAXIMA;

EID: 84863716162     PISSN: 00982997     EISSN: 18729452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mam.2012.04.004     Document Type: Review

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