Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 9 , Pages 764-769 , September 2010

A sequence variation in the promoter of the placental alkaline phosphatase gene (ALPP) is associated with allele-specific expression in human term placenta

  • L. Bellazi

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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  • S. Germond

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
    • ,
  • C. Dupont

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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  • I. Brun-Heath

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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  • A. Taillandier

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire SESEP, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Bâtiment EFS, 2 rue Jean-Louis Forain, 78150 Le Chesnay, France
    • ,
  • P. De Mazancourt

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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  • M.N. Dieudonné

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
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  • E. Mornet

      Affiliations

    • Unité de Pathologie Cellulaire et Génétique, UPRES-EA2493, Faculté de Médecine Paris Ile de France Ouest PRES Universud Paris, Université de Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines, 78035 Versailles, France
    • Laboratoire SESEP, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Bâtiment EFS, 2 rue Jean-Louis Forain, 78150 Le Chesnay, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratoire SESEP, Centre Hospitalier de Versailles, Bâtiment EFS, 2 rue Jean-Louis Forain, 78150 Le Chesnay, France. Tel.: +33 1 39 63 80 13; fax: +33 1 39 63 80 12.

,Accepted 22 June 2010.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2010.06.012

Placenta
Volume 31, Issue 9 , Pages 764-769 , September 2010

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