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Diversity in cytokine response to bacteria associated with preterm birth by fetal membranes

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The worldwide incidence of preterm birth: a systematic review of maternal mortality and morbidity

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Geographic ancestry and markers of preterm birth

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If Racial disparity in pathophysiologic pathways of preterm birth based on genetic variants

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Inflammation and Pregnancy

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Spontaneous preterm birth, a clinical dilemma: Etiologic, pathophysiologic and genetic heterogeneities and racial disparity

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Amniotic fluid interleukin-6 increase is an indicator of spontaneous preterm birth in white but not black Americans

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Racial disparity in amniotic fluid concentrations of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-α and soluble TNF receptors in spontaneous preterm birth

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Racial disparity in maternal-fetal genetic epistasis in spontaneous preterm birth

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Spontaneous preterm birth in African Americans is associated with infection and inflammatory response gene variants

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Genetic regulation of amniotic fluid TNF-alpha and soluble TNF receptor concentrations affected by race and preterm birth

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Interleukin-6 (IL-6) and receptor (IL6-R) gene haplotypes associate with amniotic fluid protein concentrations in preterm birth

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Proteomic analysis of amniotic fluid to identify women with preterm labor and intra-amniotic inflammation/infection: The use of a novel computational method to analyze mass spectrometric profiling

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Epidemiology and causes of preterm birth

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Preterm Birth in Caucasians Is Associated with Coagulation and Inflammation Pathway Gene Variants

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Corticotrophin-Releasing Hormone in Lipopolysaccharide-Stimulated Term Fetal Membranes and Amniotic Fluid From Term and Preterm Birth in African Americans and Caucasians

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