Does consanguinity affect the severity of pre-eclampsia?

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To determine whether consanguinity is more likely to be associated with severe forms of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia. Presuming a pure genetic contribution, we speculated that consanguineous marriages would increase the occurrence of severe forms of pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, through an expected increased chance for homozygosity to the putative gene. The study is a clinical case series on pre-eclamptic/eclamptic...

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