https://www.selleckchem.com/products/Tranilast.html tion (OR = 3.64, 95% CI 1.44-9.1). The need for a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission (OR = 4.64, 95% CI 1.81-11.9) and preterm birth (OR = 3.29, 95% CI 1.51-7.1) were significantly related with maternal iodine deficiency before delivery. Also there is no significant differences regarding the mean maternal urinary iodine concentration between the normal and different maternal complications groups (p = 0.47). CONCLUSION Iodine deficiency in pregnant women can be improved by appreciate planning for pregnancy, proper inter-pregnancy time interval (> 12 months to less then  5 years), appropriate nutrition during pregnancy. Besides, controlling maternal urinary iodine concentrations is important to prevent neonatal complications such as preterm delivery and NICU admission.BACKGROUND Polyploidy is widespread in animals and especially in plants. Different kinds of ploidies exist, for example, hexaploidy in wheat, octaploidy in strawberries, and diploidy, triploidy, tetraploidy, and pseudo-tetraploidy (partly tetraploid) in fish. Triploid offspring from diploid parents occur frequently in the wild in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) and, as with triploidy in general, the triploid individuals are sterile. Induced triploidy in Atlantic salmon is common practice to produce sterile fish. In Norwegian aquaculture, production of sterile triploid fish is an attempt by government and industry to limit genetic introgression between wild and farmed fish. However, triploid fish may have traits and properties that differ from those of diploids. Investigating the genetics behind traits in triploids has proved challenging because genotype calling of genetic markers in triploids is not supported by standard software. Our aim was to develop a method that can be used for genotype calling of genetic ploid parents, to discriminate between maternal and paternal parents using autosomal inheritance patterns, and to map the maternal recom