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Maternal angiotensinogen (AGT) haplotypes, fetal renin (REN) haplotypes and risk of preeclampsia; estimation of gene-gene interaction from family-triad data.
BMC medical genetics - 10 Jun 2010
Vefring Hege K, Wee Line, Jugessur Astanand, Gjessing Håkon K, Nilsen Stein T, Lie Rolv T
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BACKGROUND: Preeclampsia is a debilitating disorder affecting approximately 3% of pregnant women in the Western world. Although inconclusive, current evidence suggests that the renin-angiotensin system may be involved in hypertension. Therefore, our objective was to determine whether the genes fo...
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