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Vanderbilt University Medical Center investigators have received a five-year, $1.25 million grant from the Fogarty International Center, part of the National Institutes of Health, to build expertise in genetic epidemiology research in Vietnam.

Uterine fibroids — muscular tumors that grow in the uterus — are inconsistently linked with preterm birth. Katherine Hartmann, MD, PhD, and colleagues sought to determine the association between fibroids and preterm birth by using ultrasounds early in pregnancy.