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SUBMITTER: Wan JP
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4212332 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wan Ji-Peng JP Wang Hong H Li Chang-Zhong CZ Zhao Han H You Li L Shi Dong-Hong DH Sun Xiu-Hua XH Lv Hong H Wang Fei F Wen Ze-Qing ZQ Wang Xie-Tong XT Chen Zi-Jiang ZJ
Reproductive sciences (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) 20140318 11
Preeclampsia, characterized by hypertension and proteinuria, remains a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality. Recently, a genome-wide association study (GWAS) identified the single-nucleotide polymorphism, rs2681472, as a new hypertension susceptibility genetic variant. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the association between preeclampsia and rs268172 in a Northern Han Chinese population. We genotyped 1218 unrelated Northern Han Chinese women, including 515 patients with pre ...[more]