“…Given our prediction that HEa miRNAs interfere with signaling pathways governing fetal and placental development (8), we conducted a literature review of reports on HEa miRNA levels in gestational pathologies caused by poor placentation (26, 27, 28). Surprisingly, placental and plasma levels of 8 of 11 HEa miRNAs were significantly dysregulated in one or more of these gestational pathologies with expression of the majority of these eight miRNAs altered in both fetal growth restriction and preeclampsia (Fig 1A) (29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49), both of which are characterized by poor placental invasion (50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56).…”