Mapping a New Spontaneous Preterm Birth Susceptibility Gene, IGF1R, Using Linkage, Haplotype Sharing, and Association Analysis

• Ritva Haataja ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ritva Haataja, Minna K. Karjalainen

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Minna K. Karjalainen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ritva Haataja, Minna K. Karjalainen

  * E-mail: minna.k.karjalainen@oulu.fi

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Aino Luukkonen,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Kari Teramo,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

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• Hilkka Puttonen,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

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• Marja Ojaniemi,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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• Teppo Varilo,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Bimal P. Chaudhari,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Jevon Plunkett,

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Human and Statistics Genetics Program, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Jeffrey C. Murray,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States of America

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• Steven A. McCarroll,

  Affiliation Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Leena Peltonen †,

  † Deceased.

  Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Louis J. Muglia,

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Aarno Palotie,

  Affiliations Department of Medical Genetics, Haartman Institute, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Central Hospital, Helsinki, Finland, Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, The Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Mikko Hallman

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland

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