If Racial disparity in pathophysiologic pathways of preterm birth based on genetic variants

Reproductive Biology and Endocrinology

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Menon, Ramkumar ^a,b,c,d   Pearce, Brad ^b,d   Velez, Digna R ^d,e   Merialdi, Mario ^c   Williams, Scott M ^f   Fortunato, Stephen J ^a,b,d   Thorsen, Poul ^b,d  

^a Perinatal Research Center   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECIDUA; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; RACE DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SKIN DISEASE; UTERINE CERVIX RIPENING; BIOLOGY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; FETUS DISEASE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY OUTCOME;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, HEMATOLOGIC; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE BIRTH; SKIN DISEASES;

EID: 68049142572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14777827     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-7827-7-62     Document Type: Article

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