Editorial Omics Technologies and Neovascular Ocular Disorders

Copyright © 2014 Daniel Petrovic ̌ et al.This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Neovascular ocular disorders such as diabetic retinopathy and neovascular age-related macular degeneration (neovas-cular AMD) are an important cause of blindness in the world [1]. In these disorders, neoangiogenesis plays an important role [2], while various environmental and genetics factors are involved in their pathogenesis [2]. In the last decade of research, the importance of gene-environmental interactions and epigenetic mechanisms has been increasingly empha-sized. Inflammation has an important role in the development of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) as described in the paper by M. Urbančic ̌ et al., 2013, “A flow cytometric analysis of vitreous inflammatory cells in patients with prolif