Claudia Strafella, Valeria Errichiello, Valerio Caputo, Gianluca Aloe, Federico Ricci, Andrea Cusumano, Giuseppe Novelli, Emiliano Giardina, Raffaella Cascella
The complex interplay among genetic, epigenetic, and environmental variables is the basis for the multifactorial origin of age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Previous results highlighted that single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of CFH , ARMS2 , IL-8 , TIMP3 , SLC16A8 , RAD51B , VEGFA , and COL8A1 were significantly associated with the risk of AMD in the Italian population. Given these data, this study aimed to investigate the impact of SNPs in genes coding for MIR146A, MIR31, MIR23A, MIR27A, MIR20A, and MIR150 on their susceptibility to AMD...
March 29, 2019: International Journal of Molecular Sciences