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Maternal and fetal genetic associations of PTGER3 and PON1 with preterm birth.
PloS one - 3 Feb 2010
Ryckman Kelli K, Morken Nils-Halvdan, White Marquitta J, Velez Digna R, Menon Ramkumar, Fortunato Stephen J, Magnus Per, Williams Scott M, Jacobsson Bo
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify associations between maternal and fetal genetic variants in candidate genes and spontaneous preterm birth (PTB) in a Norwegian population and to determine the effect size of those associations that corroborate a previous study of PTB. METHODS: DNA from 434 mother-baby dyads (214 cases and 220 controls) collected from the Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort (MoBa)...
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