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ReviewJournal of experimental neuroscience2015

Epigenetic Mechanisms of the Aging Human Retina.

Katie L Pennington, Margaret M DeAngelis

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Review in Journal of experimental neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 27 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

27 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Mapping the Hypoxic Fitness Landscape of Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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  8. Current Views on Chr10q26 Contribution to Age-Related Macular Degeneration.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023
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  10. Epigenetic Regulation of Optic Nerve Development, Protection, and Repair.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  14. Age-Related Macular Degeneration: From Epigenetics to Therapeutic Implications.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Katie L PenningtonPostdoctoral Fellow, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
Margaret M DeAngelisAssociate Professor, Department of Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences, John A. Moran Eye Center, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Funding

University of Utah, Core Vision Research GrantP30EY014800 · NEI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI Bryan William Jones · 2005 to 2026
$14.6M
Vision Research Training Grant at the University of UtahT32EY024234 · NEI · UTAH STATE HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM--UNIVERSITY OF UTAH · PI DAVID KRIZAJ, Monica L Vetter · 2014 to 2026
$2.3M
NEI NIH HHS P30 EY014800NEI NIH HHS T32 EY024234
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Degenerative retinal diseases, such as glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy, have complex etiologies with environmental, genetic, and epigenetic contributions to disease pathology. Much effort has gone into elucidating both the genetic and the environmental risk factors for these retinal diseases. However, little is known about how these genetic and environmental risk factors bring about molecular changes that lead to pathology. Epigenetic mechanisms have received extensive attention of late for their promise of bridging the gap between environmental exposures and disease development via their influence on gene expression. Recent studies have identified epigenetic changes that associate with the incidence and/or progression of each of these retinal diseases. Therefore, these epigenetic modifications may be involved in the underlying pathological mechanisms leading to blindness. Further genome-wide epigenetic studies that incorporate well-characterized tissue samples, consider challenges similar to those relevant to gene expression studies, and combine the genome-wide epigenetic data with genome-wide genetic and expression data to identify additional potentially causative agents of disease are needed. Such studies will allow researchers to create much-needed therapeutics to prevent and/or intervene in disease progression. Improved therapeutics will greatly enhance the quality of life and reduce the burden of disease management for millions of patients living with these potentially blinding conditions.

Indexed as

age-related macular degenerationagingchromatindiabetic retinopathyDNA methylationepigeneticsgenome-wideglaucomahistone modificationneurodegeneration

Identifiers

PMID26966390
PMCPMC4777243

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