Disparities in Infant Mortality: Whats Genetics Got to Do With It?
Richard David, MD and
James Collins, Jr, MD, MPH
Richard David is with the Division of Neonatology, John H. Stroger Jr Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, Ill, and the Department of Pediatrics, University of Illinois, Chicago. James Collins Jr is with the Division of Neonatology, Childrens Memorial Hospital, Chicago, and the Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago.
FIGURE 1—Quantity of reports describing polymorphisms putatively implicated in the risk of preterm birth or other adverse birth outcomes.
Source. All articles before 2003 and 45 of the 59 from 2003 onward were cited in Table 1 in Fiscella.22 The remaining 14 articles2336 were obtained from a PubMed search in February 2006.