An international team of researchers has identified a gene that may play a role in pre-eclampsia, a condition that can occur during pregnancy that can affect both mother and unborn infant, according to findings published in the May 11 advance online issue of Nature.
Pre-eclampsia, which can lead to stillbirths, premature births, low-birth-weight babies and, in extreme cases, the death of the mother, is generally considered to be a unique condition in pregnancy.
