@article{224a29de9e6d49f38be05ea2e9fa3538,
title = "Maternal homozygocity for a 14 base pair insertion in exon 8 of the HLA-G gene and carriage of HLA class II alleles restricting HY immunity predispose to unexplained secondary recurrent miscarriage and low birth weight in children born to these patients",
abstract = "Homozygous carriage of a 14 base pair (bp) insertion in exon 8 of the HLA-G gene may be associated with low levels of soluble HLA-G and recurrent miscarriage (RM). We investigated the G14bp insertion(ins)/deletion(del) polymorphism in 339 women with unexplained RM and 125 control women. In all patients and patients with secondary RM after a firstborn boy, 19.2% and 23.9%, respectively, were G14bp ins/ins compared with 11.2% of controls (p",
keywords = "Abortion, Habitual, Alleles, DNA Mutational Analysis, Female, Genetic Predisposition to Disease, H-Y Antigen, HLA-G Antigens, Histocompatibility Antigens Class II, Homozygote, Humans, Immunity, Infant, Low Birth Weight, Infant, Newborn, Male, Mutagenesis, Insertional, Polymorphism, Genetic, Protein Binding",
author = "Christiansen, {Ole B} and Kolte, {Astrid M} and Mette Dahl and Larsen, {Elisabeth C} and Rudi Steffensen and Nielsen, {Henriette S} and Hviid, {Thomas V}",
note = "Copyright {\textcopyright} 2012 American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2012",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1016/j.humimm.2012.04.014",
language = "English",
volume = "73",
pages = "699--705",
journal = "Human Immunology",
issn = "0198-8859",
publisher = "Elsevier",
number = "7",
}