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SUBMITTER: Di Cristofaro J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6104483 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Di Cristofaro Julie J Karlmark Karlin R KR Kanaan Sami B SB Azzouz Doua F DF El Haddad Marina M Hubert Lucas L Farge-Bancel Dominique D Granel Brigitte B Harlé Jean Robert JR Hachulla Eric E Pardoux Etienne E Roudier Jean J Picard Christophe C Lambert Nathalie C NC
Frontiers in immunology 20180814
Women with scleroderma (SSc) maintain significantly higher quantities of persisting fetal microchimerism (FMc) from complete or incomplete pregnancies in their peripheral blood compared to healthy women. The non-classical class-I human leukocyte antigen (HLA) molecule HLA-G plays a pivotal role for the implantation and maintenance of pregnancy and has often been investigated in offspring from women with pregnancy complications. However data show that maternal <i>HLA-G</i> polymorphisms as well a ...[more]