Genetics of hypertension in pregnancy: possible single gene control of pre‐eclampsia and eclampsia in the descendants of eclamptic women

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 1986, Pages 898-908

  CHESLEY, LEON C ^a   COOPER, DESMOND W ^b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; ECLAMPSIA; ETIOLOGY; GENE CONTROL; GENETICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INHERITANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR SYSTEM; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RECESSIVE GENE; RELATIVE;

ECLAMPSIA; FEMALE; GENES, RECESSIVE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; PROTEINURIA; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0022446516     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1986.tb08006.x     Document Type: Article

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