Genetic regulation of amniotic fluid TNF-alpha and soluble TNF receptor concentrations affected by race and preterm birth

Human Genetics

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 243-253

  Menon, Ramkumar ^a,b   Velez, Digna R ^c   Morgan, Nicole ^a   Lombardi, Salvatore J ^a   Fortunato, Stephen J ^a   Williams, Scott M ^c,d  

^a Perinatal Research Center   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AMNION FLUID; AMNION FLUID LEVEL; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE RELEASE; FEMALE; FETUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RACE DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AMNIOTIC FLUID; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE I; RECEPTORS, TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR, TYPE II; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 53749096763     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-008-0547-z     Document Type: Article

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