Patent ID: 8580503

Claim:
A method for determining whether a pregnant female subject is at risk of developing preeclampsia, and a treatment strategy for said female subject based on said determination comprising: obtaining a biological test sample from said female subject and a control biological sample from a pregnant woman of same gestational age with no clinical or laboratory evidence of hypertensive disorder of pregnancy; extracting microRNA molecules from the test biological sample and the control biological sample; determining the expression of the nucleic acid sequence SEQ ID NO: 17 in the test biological sample and the control biological sample; determining whether said pregnant female subject is at risk of developing preeclampsia based on increased expression of SEQ ID NO: 17 in the test biological sample relative to the control biological sample; and determining a treatment strategy for said pregnant female based on the increased expression of SEQ ID NO: 17 in the test biological sample relative to the control biological sample.