title: HLA-G polymorphism in Finnish couples with recurrent spontaneous miscarriage.
abstract: HLA-G is a class I major histocompatibility complex gene that is expressed in cytotrophoblasts at the materno-fetal interface. It has been suggested that HLA-G could play a key role in materno-fetal immunological interactions during pregnancy. To investigate whether there is an association between HLA-G locus and recurrent spontaneous miscarriage, HLA-G alleles were determined by a PCR-RFLP method in 38 couples with recurrent spontaneous miscarriage and in 26 random control couples. In this series parental HLA-G sharing, extended HLA-G/A haplotypes and the frequencies of the HLA-G alleles were similar in the two groups. Thus, our data suggest that there is no detectable relation between susceptibility to recurrent spontaneous miscarriage and HLA-G locus.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Oulu, Finland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Karhukorpi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Laitinen
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Tiilikainen
mesh_terms: D000026:Abortion, Habitual / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005387:Finland; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005805:Genes, MHC Class I / Q000235:genetics*; D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I / Q000235:genetics; D006801:Humans; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011247:Pregnancy
chemical_list: D015395:Histocompatibility Antigens Class I