Hypomethylation of the IL17RC Promoter Associates with Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Cell Reports

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1151-1158

  Wei, Lai ^a,b   Liu, Baoying ^a   Tuo, Jingsheng ^a   Shen, Defen ^a   Chen, Ping ^a   Li, Zhiyu ^a   Liu, Xunxian ^b   Ni, Jia ^a   Dagur, Pradeep ^c   Sen, H Nida ^a   Jawad, Shayma ^a   Ling, Diamond ^a   Park, Stanley ^a   Chakrabarty, Sagarika ^a   Meyerle, Catherine ^a   Agron, Elvira ^a   Ferris, Frederick L ^a   Chew, Emily Y ^a   McCoy, J Philip ^c   Blum, Emily ^d   Francis, Peter J ^d   Klein, Michael L ^d   Guymer, Robyn H ^e   Baird, Paul N ^e   Chan, Chi Chao ^a   Nussenblatt, Robert B ^a,b   more..

^a NATIONAL EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 17; INTERLEUKIN 17F; INTERLEUKIN 17RC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHOROID; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA METHYLATION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IL17RC GENE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; SIBLING; TWINS;

CELL LINE; CPG ISLANDS; DNA METHYLATION; EYE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-17; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MONOCYTES; PHOTORECEPTOR CELLS, VERTEBRATE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN; TWINS;

EID: 84870440597     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2012.10.013     Document Type: Article

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