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Risk of pre-eclampsia in patients with a maternal genetic predisposition to common medical conditions: a case–control study
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Risk of pre-eclampsia in patients with a maternal genetic predisposition to common medical conditions: a case–control study

K. J. Gray, V. P. Kovacheva, H. Mirzakhani, A. C. Bjonnes, B. Almoguera, M. L. Wilson, S. A. Ingles, C. J. Lockwood, H. Hakonarson, T. F. McElrath, …
BJOG : an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology, Vol.128(1), pp.55-65
01/01/2021
DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.16441
PMCID: PMC7736250
PMID: 32741103
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/7736250View
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Objective To assess whether women with a genetic predisposition to medical conditions known to increase pre-eclampsia risk have an increased risk of pre-eclampsia in pregnancy. Design Case–control study. Setting and population Pre-eclampsia cases (n = 498) and controls (n = 1864) in women of European ancestry from five US sites genotyped on a cardiovascular gene-centric array. Methods Significant single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) from 21 traits in seven disease categories (cardiovascular, inflammatory/autoimmune, insulin resistance, liver, obesity, renal and thrombophilia) with published genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were used to create a genetic instrument for each trait. Multivariable logistic regression was used to test the association of each continuous scaled genetic instrument with pre-eclampsia. Odds of pre-eclampsia were compared across quartiles of the genetic instrument and evaluated for significance.
Pregnancy Cardiovascular risk genetic epidemiology genetic predisposition to disease genetic risk score pre-eclampsia

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