Article
Genetic variation in TGFB1 gene and risk of idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss.
Molecular human reproduction - 1 Jul 2013
Magdoud K, Granados Herbepin V, Messaoudi S, Hizem S, Bouafia N, Almawi W Y, Mahjoub T, Touraine R
Abstract excerpt
Transforming growth factor β1 plays a significant role in pregnancy outcome. We investigated the association of TGFB1 exon 1 (rs1800471, rs1800470) and promoter region (rs1800469, rs1800468) polymorphisms with recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) in 675 Tunisian women: 304 women with a history of three consecutive pregnancy losses of unknown etiology with the same partner and 371 age-matched multiparous control women....
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