The genetics of pre-eclampsia and other hypertensive disorders of pregnancy

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 405-417

  Williams, Paula J ^a   Broughton Pipkin, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

genome wide association study; pre eclampsia; pregnancy induced hypertension

Indexed keywords

ACTIVIN A RECEPTOR TYPE IIA; ACTIVIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN KINASE; RHO ASSOCIATED COILED COIL PROTEIN KINASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOTHELIUM; ERAP1 GENE; ERAP2 GENE; GENE; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNE MALADAPTATION; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; ISCHEMIA; LIPID METABOLISM; MATERNAL HYPERTENSION; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PLACENTA DISORDER; PLACENTA INSUFFICIENCY; PLACENTA ISCHEMIA; PREECLAMPSIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOPHILIA; THROMBOSIS; TROPHOBLAST;

EID: 79960441484     PISSN: 15216934     EISSN: 15321932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpobgyn.2011.02.007     Document Type: Review

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