Placental transcriptome in pregnancies complicated by Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and preeclampsia (PE). Placental transcriptome in pregnancies complicated by Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) and preeclampsia (PE)

Purpose: Identify differentially expressed genes in placental samples from early-onset (EO) IUGR, EO-PE, as well as pregnancies complicated by both EO-PE and EO-IUGR Overall design: Methods: Isolated total RNA from human placenta at birth and used it for RNA-sequencing on the Hiseq2000. Sequences were aligned to the human transcriptome (hg19/genome_build37) . Aligned sequences were then used to obtain abundance measurements and conduct differential expression analysis.