Unique variation in genetic selection among Black North American women and its potential influence on pregnancy outcome

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 919-922

  Jaffe, Shirlee ^a   Normand, Neil ^a   Jayaram, Aswathi ^a   Orfanelli, Theofano ^a   Doulaveris, Georgios ^a   Passos, Mariana ^a   Kanninen, Tomi T ^a   Bongiovanni, Ann Marie ^a   Linhares, Iara M ^a   Witkin, Steven S ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; MANNOSE BINDING LECTIN;

ARTICLE; ATG16L1 GENE; CAUCASIAN; CIAS1 GENE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; IL1RN GENE; INFECTION; INFLAMMATION; INNATE IMMUNITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MBL2 GENE; MICROBIAL IMMUNITY; NEGRO; NORTH AMERICA; PPARA GENE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREMATURE LABOR; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RACE DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CARRIER PROTEINS; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INTERLEUKIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST PROTEIN; MANNOSE-BINDING LECTIN; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PPAR ALPHA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; SELECTION, GENETIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84886788975     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: 15322777     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2013.08.015     Document Type: Article

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