Cytokine Genotyping in Preeclampsia

Problem  Considering that cytokines are involved in preeclampsia (PE) pathogenesis and that cytokine gene polymorphism may affect cytokine production, our purpose was to investigate the association of PE with tumor necrosis factor (TNF)‐α (−308), transforming growth factor‐β1 (+10; 25), interleukin (IL)‐10 (−1082), IL‐6 (−174), and interferon‐γ (+874) polymorphisms.

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