Genetic influences on preterm birth

Seminars in Reproductive Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-51

  DeFranco, Emily ^a   Teramo, Kari ^b   Muglia, Louis ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Genetics; Polymorphism; Preterm birth

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENOMICS; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAMMAL; MEDICAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUTRITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PREMATURITY; PREVALENCE; RACE DIFFERENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL MEMBRANES, PREMATURE RUPTURE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; OBSTETRIC LABOR, PREMATURE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 33846444924     PISSN: 15268004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-956774     Document Type: Review

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