What is it about?
About 1% of women suffer from recurrent pregnancy losses. The underlying genetics is ill-known. In this paper we report on variants of the FOXD1 gene that are associated with some cases of this disease.
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Why is it important?
Sequencing of FOXD1 in women affected by Recurrent Pregnancy Losses could allow to diagnose the cause and to propose therapeutic solutions.
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Association of
FOXD1
variants with adverse pregnancy outcomes in mice and humans
, Open Biology, October 2016, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rsob.160109.
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