Racial disparity in maternal-fetal genetic epistasis in spontaneous preterm birth

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 198, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 666.e1-666.e10

  Fortunato, Stephen J ^a,d   Menon, Ramkumar ^a,c   Velez, Digna R ^b   Thorsen, Poul ^c   Williams, Scott M ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

African American women; gene gene interactions; inflammatory cytokines; multifactor dimensionality reduction; prematurity rate; preterm delivery; white women

Indexed keywords

DNA; INTERLEUKIN 6; INTERLEUKIN 6 RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC EPISTASIS; GENOTYPE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RECEPTOR GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 44449163392     PISSN: 00029378     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.02.003     Document Type: Article

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