The v-MFG test: Investigating maternal, offspring and maternal-fetal genetic incompatibility effects on disease and viability

Genetic Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 333-347

  Hsieh, Hsin Ju ^a   Palmer, Christina G S ^a,b   Harney, Sinead ^c   Newton, Julia L ^d   Wordsworth, Paul ^d   Brown, Matthew A ^e   Sinsheimer, Janet S ^a,b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c University College Cork   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Family based association; Gene by environment; Gene by gene; Interaction; Viability loss

Indexed keywords

HLA DR ANTIGEN;

GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC INCOMPATIBILITY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL FETAL GENOTYPE TEST; REVIEW; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ALLELES; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; FAMILY HEALTH; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETIC SCREENING; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY TESTING; HLA-DR ANTIGENS; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTHERS; PEDIGREE;

EID: 33646242987     PISSN: 07410395     EISSN: 10982272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gepi.20148     Document Type: Review

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