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American Journal of Epidemiology 2009 170(11):1386-1387; doi:10.1093/aje/kwp327
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American Journal of Epidemiology © The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

Response to Invited Commentary

Svensson et al. Respond to "Maternal Genes and Environment in Preterm Birth"

Anna C. Svensson*, Sven Sandin, Sven Cnattingius, Marie Reilly, Yudi Pawitan, Christina M. Hultman and Paul Lichtenstein

* Correspondence to Dr. Anna C. Svensson, Division of Public Health Epidemiology, Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Norrbacka, Fifth Floor, SE-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden (e-mail: anna.svensson@ki.se).

Received for publication August 31, 2009. Accepted for publication September 10, 2009.

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We would like to thank Dr. Little (1) for his commentary on our article, "Maternal Effects for Preterm Birth—A Genetic Epidemiologic Study of 630,000 Families" (2). Using data from Swedish population-based registers, we conclude that maternal rather than fetal genetic factors are important in preterm birth. Our findings . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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