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Human leukocyte antigen matching and fetal loss: results of a 10 year prospective study.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Jan 1998
Ober C, Hyslop T, Elias S, Weitkamp L R, Hauck W W
Abstract excerpt
The role that maternal and fetal human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes play in pregnancy is unknown, but it has been suggested that fetuses whose HLA alleles do not differ from maternal alleles (i.e. histocompatible fetuses) are more likely to be aborted than fetuses with HLA alleles that differ from maternal alleles (i.e. histoincompatible fetuses). To elucidate the role of HLA compatibility in pregnancy, we...
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