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