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Paternal and maternal components of the predisposition to preeclampsia.
The New England journal of medicine - 22 Mar 2001
Esplin M S, Fausett M B, Fraser A, Kerber R, Mineau G, Carrillo J, Varner M W
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BACKGROUND: There is an inherited maternal predisposition to preeclampsia. Whether there is a paternal component, however, is not known. METHODS: We used records of the Utah Population Database to identify 298 men and 237 women born in Utah between 1947 and 1957 whose mothers had had preeclampsia during their pregnancy. For each man and woman in the study group, we identified two matched, unrelated control...
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