Despite the fact that a link between cholesterol and the myometrium has been clearly established, no study investigating aspects of cholesterol metabolism and uterine dystocia currently exists. This study is a pilot study whose aim is to test the hypothesis that an association between uterine dystocia and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the genes coding for the LXRs.
Study Type
OBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment
58
Whole blood sampling for SNP polymorphism analysis
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nîmes
Nîmes, France
The multi-loci genotype of the target DNA sequence.
The polymorphisms of interest are the following SNPs: rs3758673, rs3758674, rs12221497, rs11039155, rs2279238, rs7120118, rs35463555, rs1052533, rs2248949, rs41432149, rs1405655, rs4802703.
Time frame: Day 1
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