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Interactions between environmental factors and maternal-fetal genetic variations: strategies to elucidate risks of preterm birth.
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology - 1 Jul 2016
Pereyra Silvana, Bertoni Bernardo, Sapiro Rossana
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CONTEXT: Preterm birth (PTB) is a complex disease in which medical, social, cultural, and hereditary factors contribute to the pathogenesis of this adverse event. Interactions between genes and environmental factors may complicate our understanding of the relative influence of both effects on PTB. To overcome this, we combined data obtained from a cohort of newborns and their mothers with multiplex analysis of...
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