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Live births in women with recurrent hydatidiform mole and two NLRP7 mutations.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Jul 2015
Akoury Elie, Gupta Neerja, Bagga Rashmi, Brown Stephen, Déry Christine, Kabra Madhulika, Srinivasan Radhika, Slim Rima
Abstract excerpt
Hydatidiform mole (HM) is an aberrant human pregnancy with abnormal embryonic development and excessive proliferation of the trophoblast. Recessive mutations in NLRP7 are responsible for recurrent HM (RHM). Women with recessive NLRP7 mutations fail to have normal pregnancies from spontaneous conceptions with the exception of three out of 131 reported patients. Because there is no treatment for RHM and...
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