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Altered HLA-G transcription in pre-eclampsia is associated with allele specific inheritance: possible role of the HLA-G gene in susceptibility to the disease.
Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS - 1 Nov 2001
O'Brien M, McCarthy T, Jenkins D, Paul P, Dausset J, Carosella E D, Moreau P
Abstract excerpt
Pre-eclampsia is a disorder of human pregnancy occurring in 5-10% of all births, and represents the leading cause of infant morbidity and mortality and maternal death. In pre-eclampsia, invasion of fetal trophoblasts into maternal arteries during early pregnancy is shallow or absent. Here we examined the hypothesis that HLA-G, a non-classical class I HLA expressed in cytotrophoblasts, may act as a key gene in...
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