Vitamin D metabolic loci and preeclampsia risk in multi-ethnic pregnant women.

ABSTRACT: Allelic variants in vitamin D metabolism genes may increase the risk of preeclampsia, but few studies have systematically tested this hypothesis. Our objective was to evaluate the relationship between maternal allelic variants in three vitamin D metabolism genes and risk of preeclampsia. Samples were from two case-control studies of pregnant women who delivered in Pittsburgh, PA from 1999 to 2010 and twelve recruiting sites across the United States from 1959 to 1965. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) were genotyped 50 kilobases up- and down-stream in three genes (VDR, GC, and CYP27B1) in the samples from both studies, for a total of 744 preeclampsia cases and 2411 controls. Using multivariable logistic regression, we estimated the associations between allelic variation in each locus a

SUBMITTER: Baca KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5789712 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature