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X-chromosomal maternal and fetal SNPs and the risk of spontaneous preterm delivery in a Danish/Norwegian genome-wide association study.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Myking Solveig, Boyd Heather A, Myhre Ronny, Feenstra Bjarke, Jugessur Astanand, Devold Pay Aase S, Ostensen Ingrid H G, Morken Nils-Halvdan, Busch Tamara, Ryckman Kelli K, Geller Frank, Magnus Per, Gjessing Håkon K, Melbye Mads, Jacobsson Bo, Murray Jeffrey C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Recent epidemiological studies suggest that the maternal genome is an important contributor to spontaneous preterm delivery (PTD). There is also a significant excess of males among preterm born infants, which may imply an X-linked mode of inheritance for a subset of cases. To explore this, we examined the effect of maternal and fetal X-chromosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on the risk of...
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