CC chemokine receptor-3 as new target for age-related macular degeneration

Gene

Volumn 523, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-111

  Sharma, Neel Kamal ^a   Gupta, Amod ^a   Prabhakar, Sudesh ^a   Singh, Ramandeep ^a   Bhatt, Arvind Kumar ^b   Anand, Akshay ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

^b HIMACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

AMD; CCR3; Chemokines; Inflammation; Population study; Single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

CHEMOKINE RECEPTOR CCR3;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INDIAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETINA MACULA AGE RELATED DEGENERATION; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SMOKING; SUBRETINAL NEOVASCULARIZATION;

AGED; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 3; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION STUDIES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MACULAR DEGENERATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, CCR3; RISK FACTORS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84877835084     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: 18790038     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gene.2013.03.052     Document Type: Article

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