Rare mutations and potentially damaging missense variants in genes encoding fibrillar collagens and proteins involved in their production are candidates for risk for preterm premature rupture of membranes

• Bhavi P. Modi,

  Affiliation Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1758-2847

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• Maria E. Teves,

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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• Laurel N. Pearson,

  Affiliation Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States of America

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• Hardik I. Parikh,

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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• Piya Chaemsaithong,

  Affiliation Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD and Detroit, MI, United States of America

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• Nihar U. Sheth,

  Affiliation Center for Study of Biological Complexity, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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• Timothy P. York,

  Affiliations Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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• Roberto Romero,

  Affiliations Perinatology Research Branch, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, NIH, Bethesda, MD and Detroit, MI, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States of America, Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI, United States of America

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• Jerome F. Strauss III

  * E-mail: jerome.strauss@vcuhealth.org

  Affiliations Department of Human and Molecular Genetics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States of America

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