Familial aggregation of stillbirth: a pedigree analysis of a
matched case control study
Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, PhD, MS*1; Jessica M Page,
MD, MSCI*1,2; Huong Meeks, PhD, MS3;
Zhe Yu, MS3; Emily Guinto, MS3;
Alison Fraser, MSPH3; Michael W. Varner,
MD1,2; Lauren Theilen, MD, MSCI1;
Aaron Quinlan, PhD4; Hilary Coon,
PhD5; Daniel A Enquobahrie, MD, PhD,
MPH6; Cande V. Ananth, PhD, MPH7,8;
Fasil Tekola-Ayele, PhD, MPH9; Lynn B. Jorde, PhD,
MS4; Robert M. Silver, MD1,2
Affiliations :
1University of Utah Health, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynecology, Salt Lake City, UT;
2Intermountain Healthcare, Maternal-Fetal Medicine,
Salt Lake City, UT;
3Population Sciences, Huntsman Cancer Institute,
University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, UT;
4University of Utah, Department of Human Genetics,
Salt Lake City, UT;
5University of Utah, Department of Psychiatry and
Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Salt Lake City, UT;
6Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington,
Seattle, WA;
7Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, NJ;
8Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and
Reproductive Sciences, New Brunswick, NJ;
9 Epidemiology Branch, Division of Population Health
Research, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD
Corresponding author : Tsegaselassie Workalemahu, PhD MS;
University of Utah, 30 North 1900 East, Suite 2B293, Salt Lake City, UT,
84132. Phone: 801-587-1607. Email:
tsegaselassie.workalemahu@hsc.utah.edu
This work was supported by grant funding from the National Center for
Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health
(grant 1UL01TR002538). The content is solely the responsibility of the
authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the
National Institutes of Health. Author TW is supported by the National
Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes
of Health (KL2 grant TR002549). Author CVA is supported, in part, by the
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (grant R01-HL150065) and the
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (grant
R01-ES033190). Author LBJ is supported by National Institute of General
Medical Sciences (grant R35GM118335).