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Absence of Factor V Leiden, thrombomodulin and prothrombin gene variants in Black South African women with pre‐eclampsia and eclampsia
Author(s) -
Hira B.,
Pegoraro R.J.,
Rom L.,
Moodley J.
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
bjog: an international journal of obstetrics and gynaecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.157
H-Index - 164
eISSN - 1471-0528
pISSN - 1470-0328
DOI - 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2003.01090.x
Subject(s) - eclampsia , genotyping , medicine , factor v leiden , allele , allele frequency , population , preeclampsia , genotype , genetics , obstetrics , gene , pregnancy , biology , thrombosis , venous thrombosis , environmental health
It has been suggested that gene aberrations may contribute to vascular endothelial dysfunction of pre‐eclampsia in Caucasian and Japanese women. This study was undertaken to examine the association between pre‐eclampsia in Black Zulu speaking South African women and the Factor 5 Leiden mutation. 100 patients with pre‐eclampsia comprised the study group. The control group comprised 110 normotensive pregnant women of the same population group. Genotyping was performed to detect the G or A allele at residue 506 of the Factor V gene, and the C or T allele at residue 455 of the thrombomodulin gene. Our findings demonstrate that these particularly genetic loci are of little use in disease association studies for pre‐eclampsia in homogenous Zulu speaking Africans.