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Cite this article as: Mijal RS, Holzman CB, Rana S, et al. Midpregnancy levels of angiogenic markers in relation to maternal characteristics. Am J Obstet Gynecol 2011;204:244.e1-12.
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Supported by the March of Dimes Foundation (Grant nos. 20FY01-38 and 20-FY04-37), the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the National Institute of Nursing Research (Grant no. R01 HD34543), the Thrasher Research Foundation (Grant no. 02816-7), Diabetes UK (Grant no. RD 05-0003099), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Grant no. U01 DP000143-01), awarded to C.B.H. R.S.M. is supported by an Institutional T32 grant (Grant no. T32 HD046377) in Perinatal Epidemiology awarded to Michigan State University. S.R. is supported by a Women's Reproductive Health Research Award (5K12HD001255- NIH/NICHD). S.A.K. is an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
Dr Karumanchi is a listed as a co-inventor on multiple patents assigned to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center that are related to the diagnosis and therapy of preeclampsia. These patents have been licensed nonexclusively to multiple companies. He is also a consultant to Abbott, Beckman Coulter, Johnson & Johnson and Roche diagnostics.
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