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A functional variant in ANGPT1 and the risk of pregnancies with hypertensive disorders and small-for-gestational-age infants.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Jun 2012
Andraweera Prabha H, Dekker Gustaaf A, Thompson Steven D, North Robyn A, McCowan Lesley M E, Roberts Claire T
Abstract excerpt
Pregnancies complicated by pre-eclampsia and small-for-gestational-age (SGA) infants demonstrate impaired placental vascular remodelling. Angiopoietin-1 (ANG-1) is an angiogenic growth factor which regulates vascular integrity and remodelling. The TT genotype of angiopoietin 1 (ANGPT1) rs2507800 polymorphism has been associated with increased plasma ANG-1 levels compared with the AA genotype. We aimed to...
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