LGALS13 and preeclampsia: The placental expressions of galectin-1 and galectin-13 were decreased in early pregnancy loss and preeclampsia (Liu et al., 2006; Freitag et al., 2013; Than et al., 2014), whereas the expressions of galectin-3 and galectin-9 were increased in preeclampsia (Jeschke et al., 2007; Blois et al., 2019).