Genome-wide association study reveals HSF2, GJA1 and TRIM36 as susceptibility genes for preeclampsia: a community-based population study in Tianjin, China

• Main Authors: Zhenhua Cao (Author), Li Ma (Author), Wei Cai (Author), Xiulong Niu (Author), Ning Yang (Author), Jianmei Ni (Author), Xiaojing Wang (Author), Maoti Wei (Author), Shaobo Chen (Author), Yuming Li (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2023-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Background Preeclampsia (PE) mainly occurs in pregnant women and is hereditary. Several genome-wide association studies (GWAS) on Caucasian samples have reported some gene loci that are associated with preeclampsia. However, these studies have not reached consistent conclusions. No previous GWAS has...