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TGFB1 Functional Gene Polymorphisms (C-509T and T869C) in the Maternal Susceptibility to Pre-eclampsia in South Indian Women.
Scandinavian journal of immunology - 1 Oct 2015
Deepthi Goske, Chaithri Ponnaluri Kamakshi, Latha Prasanna, Rani Vital Usha, Rahman Police Fazul, Jahan Parveen
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Pre-eclampsia (PE), a pregnancy-specific vascular disorder characterized by hypertension and proteinuria, is hypothesized to be the result of inadequate placental angiogenesis with attendant systemic inflammation. The pleiotropic cytokine, Transforming Growth Factor-β1 (TGF-β1), is considered to be a key candidate gene in the molecular pathogenesis of PE by virtue of its ability to not only regulate angiogenesis...
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