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Prostasin gene polymorphism at rs12597511 is associated with severe preeclampsia in Chinese Han women.
Chinese medical journal - 1 Jan 2014
Luo Dong, Zhang Yanyan, Bai Yi, Liu Xijing, Gong Yunhui, Zhou Bin, Zhang Lin, Luo Linli, Zhou Rong
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Preeclampsia, characterized by hypertension and proteinuria, is a multifactorial disease associated with shallow invasion of trophoblast cells and inadequate spiral artery remodeling. Trophoblast and tumor cells have similar invasion mechanism. Prostasin is closely related to tumor de...
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