Running title: Maternal leptin and ceramide predict preeclampsia
Qianyang Huang1#, Shiying Hao2,3#, Jin You4#, Xiaoming Yao1#, Zhen Li5, James Schilling1,6, Zhen Li6,7, Sheeno Thyparambil1, Wei-li Liao1, Xin Zhou8, Lihong Mo9, Subhashini Ladella9, David Fan10, John C. Whitin11, Harvey J. Cohen11, Doff B. McElhinney2,3, Ronald J. Wong11, Gary M. Shaw11, David K. Stevenson11, Karl G. Sylvester5, Xuefeng B. Ling3,5*
1mProbe Inc., Mountain View, CA, United States
2Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
3Clinical and Translational Research Program, Betty Irene Moore Children’s Heart Center, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Palo Alto, CA, United States
4Department of Bioengineering, University of California Riverside, Riverside, CA, United States
5Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
6Binhai Industrial Technology Research Institute, Zhejiang University, Tianjin, China
7School of Electrical Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing, China
8Department of Cardiology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China
9Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of California San Francisco-Fresno, Fresno, CA, United States
10Department of Statistics and Applied Probability, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States
11Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States
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*Corresponding author: Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA; Tel: 650-427-9198; Fax: (650)-723-1154; Email Address: bxling@stanford.edu