Premature birth gene 'discovered' (BBC News Online, 15 April 2011)

15 Apr 2011


Scientists from the USA and Finland have conducted a body of studies on gestation in humans and non-human primates, and genome analysis, to deliver several findings on birth timing in human evolution centred around variants of the follicle stimulating hormone receptor gene.

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