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SUBMITTER: Liu C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6715701 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Chang C Chen Guanjie G Bentley Amy R AR Doumatey Ayo A Zhou Jie J Adeyemo Adebowale A Yang Jinkui J Rotimi Charles C
NPJ genomic medicine 20190829
Proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) is a sight-threatening complication of diabetes that is associated with longer duration of diabetes and poor glycemic control under a genetic susceptibility background. Although GWAS of PDR have been conducted in Europeans and Asians, none has been done in continental Africans, a population at increased risk for PDR. Here, we report a GWAS of PDR among Africans. PDR cases (<i>n</i> = 64) were T2D patients with neovascularization in the retina and/or retin ...[more]