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Strong association between angiotensin I-converting enzyme I/D polymorphism and unexplained recurrent miscarriage of Chinese women--a case-control study.
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) - 1 Aug 2011
Zhang Shufang, Wang Jing, Wang Binbin, Ping Yu, Ma Xu
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The patients with recurrent miscarriage (RM) undergo multiple diagnostic tests to detect parental chromosomal anomalies, maternal thrombophilic, endocrine, or immunological disorders, and over 50% of the cases with RM are classified as idiopathic unexplained RM (URM). Angiotensin I-converting enzyme (ACE) is proposed to be a candidate gene in many common diseases, and the plasma ACE levels was associated with an...
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