Genomics of preterm birth

Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Swaggart, Kayleigh A ^a   Pavlicev, Mihaela ^a,b   Muglia, Louis J ^a,b  

^a CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGESTERONE; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FETUS MEMBRANE; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LUTEOLYSIS; MEMBRANE RUPTURE; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; BIRTH; BLOOD; FEMALE; GENETICS; PREMATURITY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENETIC LOCI; GENOMICS; HUMANS; MODELS, ANIMAL; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE BIRTH; PROGESTERONE;

EID: 84923768720     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21571422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/cshperspect.a023127     Document Type: Article

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