Low protein Z levels, but not the intron F G79A polymorphism, are associated with unexplained pregnancy loss

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 24-27

  Topalidou, Maria ^a   Effraimidou, Smaragda ^a   Farmakiotis, Dimitrios ^a   Papadakis, Emmanuil ^a   Papaioannou, Georgia ^a   Korantzis, Ioannis ^a   Garipidou, Vassilia ^b  

^a PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b Aristotle University of Thessaloniki   (Greece)

Author keywords

Gene polymorphism; Pregnancy loss; Protein Z (PZ); Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; FETUS DEATH; GENE FREQUENCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INTRON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT ABORTION; REPRODUCTION; RISK FACTOR; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; ALLELES; BLOOD PROTEINS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTRONS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 64549164580     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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