Genetics and Epigenetics of Eye Diseases
A special issue of International Journal of Molecular Sciences (ISSN 1422-0067). This special issue belongs to the section "Molecular Genetics and Genomics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 19336
Special Issue Editors
Interests: DNA and RNA structure; DNA damage and repair; DNA damage response; mutagenesis; cancer transformation; age-related macular degeneration; autophagy; mitochondrial quality control; mitophagy; miRNA-lncRNA regulation; gene regulation; epigenetics
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Interests: autophagy; oxidative stress; inflammation; lysosome; retinal pigment epithelium; reactive oxygen species; lipid peroxidation; age-related macular degeneration
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Everything lies in genes or rather their expression, which is regulated genetically (transcription factors and other functional and structural proteins) and epigenetically (DNA methylation, histone modifications, non-coding RNAs). Deregulated gene expression is at the very heart of many human pathologies. Most human eye diseases are complex disorders, whose pathogenesis is underlined by an interplay between genetic/epigenetic, environmental, and life-style factors. The aim of this Special Issue is to shed some light on molecular aspects on this interplay. Therefore, all manuscripts, including clinical reports, experimental works and reviews as well as meta-analyses, reporting associations between eye disease phenotype and changes in the genome and epigenome are welcome. Because eye diseases in humans can be hardly studied in the target tissue, reports on experimental modeling of the involvement of genetic/epigenetic factors in their pathogenesis are also welcome.
Prof. Dr. Janusz Blasiak
Prof. Dr. Kai Kaarniranta
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Gene/genome expression
- DNA damage/repair
- DNA mutation/polymorphism
- DNA methylation
- Histone modifications
- Non-coding RNAs
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