Discovery of rare ancestry-specific variants in the fetal genome that confer risk of preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) and preterm birth

• Main Authors: Bhavi P. Modi (Author), Hardik I. Parikh (Author), Maria E. Teves (Author), Rewa Kulkarni (Author), Jiang Liyu (Author), Roberto Romero (Author), Timothy P. York (Author), Jerome F. Strauss (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Preterm premature rupture of membranes (PPROM) is the leading identifiable cause of preterm birth, a complication that is more common in African Americans. Attempts to identify genetic loci associated with preterm birth using genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have only been...