THE INCIDENCE OF SEVERE PRE-ECLAMPSIA AMONGST MOTHERS AND MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF PRE-ECLAMPTICS AND CONTROLS
THE INCIDENCE OF SEVERE PRE-ECLAMPSIA AMONGST MOTHERS AND MOTHERS-IN-LAW OF PRE-ECLAMPTICS AND CONTROLS
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10.1111/j.1471-0528.1981.tb01304.x
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1981-01-01
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MACGILLIVRAY, I
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SUTHERLAND, A;COOPER, DW;MACGILLIVRAY, I
To distinguish between a maternal, fetal or maternal and fetal [human] genetic predisposition towards severe preeclampsia, the 1st pregnancies of 158 mothers and 160 mothers-in-law of preeclamptic women and of matched controls were analyzed. Mothers (14%) of preeclamptics had severe preeclampsia, confirming previous suggestions that the condition runs in families, in contrast to only a 3% incidence amongst mothers of controls. The incidence in mothers-in-law of both preeclamptics and controls was 4%, in full agreement with a maternal genotype hypothesis and suggesting that the fetal genotype plays, at most, only a minor role in the etiology of severe preeclampsia. The data agree with the hypothesis that a single recessive gene acting in the mother could be responsible for severe preeclampsia, but multifactorial inheritance is not ruled out. Mild preeclampsia showed no such familial tendency, indicating that the mild and severe forms of preeclampsia may represent separate pathological entities.