ea0063gp121 | Diabetes: Late Complications | ECE2019
Crispim Daisy
, Massignam Eloisa
, Pellenz Felipe Mateus
, Dieter Cristine
Background and aims: Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is an important chronic complication of diabetes mellitus (DM), and is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in adults. Although several single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) have been associated with DR, more information is needed to unravel the genetics of this complex disease. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a class of small noncoding RNAs that regulate expression of at least 60% of all protein-coding genes. A number of miRNAs ha...