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Vitamin D metabolic loci and preeclampsia risk in multi-ethnic pregnant women.
Physiological reports - 1 Jan 2018
Baca Katharyn M, Govil Manika, Zmuda Joseph M, Simhan Hyagriv N, Marazita Mary L, Bodnar Lisa M
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Allelic variants in vitamin D metabolism genes may increase the risk of preeclampsia, but few studies have systematically tested this hypothesis. Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between maternal allelic variants in three vitamin D metabolism genes and risk of preeclampsia. Samples were from two case-control studies of pregnant women who delivered in Pittsburgh, PA from 1999 to 2010 and twelve...
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