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Examination of genetic polymorphisms in newborns for signatures of sex-specific prenatal selection.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Oct 2010
Ucisik-Akkaya Esma, Davis Charronne F, Do Thuy N, Morrison Brittany A, Stemmer Shlomo M, Amadio William J, Dorak M Tevfik
Abstract excerpt
Success rate in human pregnancies is believed to be very low and sex-specific mechanisms may operate in prenatal loss. Assuming a sex-differential in prenatal loss exists, we examined genetic markers in biologically plausible targets in the HLA complex, other immune system-related and iron-regulatory genes in 388 healthy newborns from Wales (UK) using one sex as a control group for the other. Genotyping of 333...
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