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
Original language | English |
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Journal | Human Immunology |
Volume | 73 |
Issue number | 7 |
Pages (from-to) | 699-705 |
Number of pages | 7 |
ISSN | 0198-8859 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2012 |
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