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Steinthorsdottir V, McGinnis R, Williams NO, Stefansdottir L, Thorleifsson G, Shooter S, Fadista J, Sigurdsson JK, Auro KM, Berezina G, Borges MC, Bumpstead S, Bybjerg-Grauholm J, Colgiu I, Dolby VA, Dudbridge F, Engel SM, Franklin CS, Frigge ML, Frisbaek Y, Geirsson RT, Geller F, Gretarsdottir S, Gudbjartsson DF, Harmon Q, Hougaard DM, Hegay T, Helgadottir A, Hjartardottir S, Jääskeläinen T, Johannsdottir H, Jonsdottir I, Juliusdottir T, Kalsheker N, Kasimov A, Kemp JP, Kivinen K, Klungsøyr K, Lee WK, Melbye M, Miedzybrodska Z, Moffett A, Najmutdinova D, Nishanova F, Olafsdottir T, Perola M, Pipkin FB, Poston L, Prescott G, Saevarsdottir S, Salimbayeva D, Scaife PJ, Skotte L, Staines-Urias E, Stefansson OA, Sørensen KM, Thomsen LCV, Tragante V, Trogstad L, Simpson NAB, Aripova T, Casas JP, Dominiczak AF, Walker JJ, Thorsteinsdottir U, Iversen AC, Feenstra B, Lawlor DA, Boyd HA, Magnus P, Laivuori H, Zakhidova N, Svyatova G, Stefansson K, Morgan L. Genetic predisposition to hypertension is associated with preeclampsia in European and Central Asian women. Nat Commun 2020; 11:5976. [PMID: 33239696 PMCID: PMC7688949 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-19733-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 80] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2019] [Accepted: 10/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
Abstract
Preeclampsia is a serious complication of pregnancy, affecting both maternal and fetal health. In genome-wide association meta-analysis of European and Central Asian mothers, we identify sequence variants that associate with preeclampsia in the maternal genome at ZNF831/20q13 and FTO/16q12. These are previously established variants for blood pressure (BP) and the FTO variant has also been associated with body mass index (BMI). Further analysis of BP variants establishes that variants at MECOM/3q26, FGF5/4q21 and SH2B3/12q24 also associate with preeclampsia through the maternal genome. We further show that a polygenic risk score for hypertension associates with preeclampsia. However, comparison with gestational hypertension indicates that additional factors modify the risk of preeclampsia.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University Diabetes Centre, Malmö, Sweden
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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- Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Department for Congenital Disorders, Danish Centre for Neonatal Screening, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research (LIMR), School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Durham, NC, USA
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- Department for Congenital Disorders, Danish Centre for Neonatal Screening, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Institute of immunology and human genomics, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Institute of immunology and human genomics, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- The University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, The University of Queensland, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia
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- Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Division of Mental and Physical Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
- Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Division of Applied Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences, Nutrition and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Republic Specialized Scientific Practical Medical Centre of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Republic Specialized Scientific Practical Medical Centre of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
- Research Program for Clinical and Molecular Metabolism, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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- Department of Women and Children's Health, King's College London, London, UK
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- Division of Applied Medicine, School of Medicine, Medical Sciences, Nutrition and Dentistry, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK
- Lancashire Clinical Trials Unit, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
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- Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Department of Non-Communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Department of Clinical Science, Centre for Cancer Biomarkers CCBIO, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Division Heart & Lungs, Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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- Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Modelling, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Division of Womens and Children's Health, School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Institute of immunology and human genomics, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Massachusetts Veterans Epidemiology Research and Information Center (MAVERIC), VA Boston Healthcare System, Boston, MA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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- Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Leeds Institute of Medical Research (LIMR), School of Medicine, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR), Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Population Health Science, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
- Bristol NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Bristol, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
- Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland, Helsinki Institute of Life Science, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tampere University Hospital and Tampere University, Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere, Finland
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- Institute of immunology and human genomics, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- deCODE genetics/Amgen Inc., Reykjavik, Iceland
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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McGinnis R, Steinthorsdottir V, Williams NO, Thorleifsson G, Shooter S, Hjartardottir S, Bumpstead S, Stefansdottir L, Hildyard L, Sigurdsson JK, Kemp JP, Silva GB, Thomsen LCV, Jääskeläinen T, Kajantie E, Chappell S, Kalsheker N, Moffett A, Hiby S, Lee WK, Padmanabhan S, Simpson NAB, Dolby VA, Staines-Urias E, Engel SM, Haugan A, Trogstad L, Svyatova G, Zakhidova N, Najmutdinova D, Dominiczak AF, Gjessing HK, Casas JP, Dudbridge F, Walker JJ, Pipkin FB, Thorsteinsdottir U, Geirsson RT, Lawlor DA, Iversen AC, Magnus P, Laivuori H, Stefansson K, Morgan L. Variants in the fetal genome near FLT1 are associated with risk of preeclampsia. Nat Genet 2017. [PMID: 28628106 DOI: 10.1038/ng.3895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Preeclampsia, which affects approximately 5% of pregnancies, is a leading cause of maternal and perinatal death. The causes of preeclampsia remain unclear, but there is evidence for inherited susceptibility. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have not identified maternal sequence variants of genome-wide significance that replicate in independent data sets. We report the first GWAS of offspring from preeclamptic pregnancies and discovery of the first genome-wide significant susceptibility locus (rs4769613; P = 5.4 × 10-11) in 4,380 cases and 310,238 controls. This locus is near the FLT1 gene encoding Fms-like tyrosine kinase 1, providing biological support, as a placental isoform of this protein (sFlt-1) is implicated in the pathology of preeclampsia. The association was strongest in offspring from pregnancies in which preeclampsia developed during late gestation and offspring birth weights exceeded the tenth centile. An additional nearby variant, rs12050029, associated with preeclampsia independently of rs4769613. The newly discovered locus may enhance understanding of the pathophysiology of preeclampsia and its subtypes.
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Affiliation(s)
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,University of Queensland Diamantina Institute, Translational Research Institute, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) and Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.,St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) and Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway.,Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway
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- Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland.,Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.,PEDEGO Research Unit, Oulu University Hospital and University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- Department of Pathology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.,Nuffield Department of Obstetrics &Gynaecology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Scientific Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology, Almaty, Kazakhstan
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- Institute of Immunology, Uzbek Academy of Sciences, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- Republic Specialized Scientific Practical Medical Centre of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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- BHF Glasgow Cardiovascular Research Centre, Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway.,Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
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- Farr Institute of Health Informatics, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Non-communicable Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
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- Leeds Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK
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- deCODE Genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.,School of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK
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- Centre of Molecular Inflammation Research (CEMIR) and Department of Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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- Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway
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- Medical and Clinical Genetics, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.,Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.,Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
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- deCODE Genetics/Amgen, Reykjavik, Iceland.,Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
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- School of Life Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
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