Genetic recapitulation of human pre-eclampsia risk during convergent evolution of reduced placental invasiveness in eutherian mammals

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1663, 2015, Pages

  Elliot, Michael G ^a   Crespi, Bernard J ^b  

^a ST JOHN S COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Candidate genes; Darwinian medicines; Placentation; Positive selection; Pre eclampsia

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME; INVASIVENESS; MAMMAL; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

CYNOCEPHALIDAE; EUARCHONTOGLIRES; EUTHERIA; LAGOMORPHA; MAMMALIA; PRIMATES; RODENTIA; TUPAIIDAE;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE; GENETIC SELECTION; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; PREECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENES; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; PLACENTA DISEASES; PRE-ECLAMPSIA; PREGNANCY; SELECTION, GENETIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84922295371     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0069     Document Type: Review

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