Placenta
Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 15-24 , January 2009

Altered Global Gene Expression in First Trimester Placentas of Women Destined to Develop Preeclampsia

  • S.A. Founds

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. School of Nursing, Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Pittsburgh, 440 Victoria Building, 3500 Victoria Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15261. Tel.: +1 412 624 3822; fax: +1 412 624 8521.
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  • Y.P. Conley

      Affiliations

    • School of Nursing, Department of Health Promotion and Development, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • Graduate School of Public Health, Department of Human Genetics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • ,
  • J.F. Lyons-Weiler

      Affiliations

    • Genomics and Proteomics Core Laboratory, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • ,
  • A. Jeyabalan

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • ,
  • W. Allen Hogge

      Affiliations

    • School of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15261, USA
    • ,
  • K.P. Conrad

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Functional Genomics, University of Florida College of Medicine, USA
    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Florida College of Medicine, USA

,Accepted 22 September 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2008.09.015

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Volume 30, Issue 1 , Pages 15-24 , January 2009

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