Maria A Nieves-Colón, Keyla M Badillo Rivera, Karla Sandoval, Vanessa Villanueva Dávalos, Luis E Enriquez Lencinas, Javier Mendoza-Revilla, Kaustubh Adhikari, Ram González-Buenfil, Jessica W Chen, Elisa T Zhang, Alexandra Sockell, Patricia Ortiz-Tello, Gloria Malena Hurtado, Ramiro Condori Salas, Ricardo Cebrecos, José C Manzaneda Choque, Franz P Manzaneda Choque, Germán P Yábar Pilco, Erin Rawls, Celeste Eng, Scott Huntsman, Esteban Burchard, Andrés Ruiz-Linares, Rolando González-José, Gabriel Bedoya, Francisco Rothhammer, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Giovanni Poletti, Carla Gallo, Carlos D Bustamante, Julie C Baker, Christopher R Gignoux, Genevieve L Wojcik, Andrés Moreno-Estrada
Preeclampsia is a multi-organ complication of pregnancy characterized by sudden hypertension and proteinuria that is among the leading causes of preterm delivery and maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. The heterogeneity of preeclampsia poses a challenge for understanding its etiology and molecular basis. Intriguingly, risk for the condition increases in high-altitude regions such as the Peruvian Andes. To investigate the genetic basis of preeclampsia in a population living at high altitude, we characterized genome-wide variation in a cohort of preeclamptic and healthy Andean families (n = 883) from Puno, Peru, a city located above 3,800 meters of altitude...
May 13, 2022: American Journal of Human Genetics