pre-eclampsia/eclampsia 4
pre-eclampsia/eclampsia 4
A hereditary condition (OMIM:609404) characterised by hypertension and proteinuria during pregnancy, and attributed to maternally expressed imprinted defective genes that act during the first trimester.
Molecular pathology
Defects of STOX1, which encodes a DNA-binding protein, cause pre-eclampsia/eclampsia type 4.Segen's Medical Dictionary. © 2012 Farlex, Inc. All rights reserved.
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