Polycystic ovaries and premature male pattern baldness are associated with one allele of the steroid metabolism gene CYP17

Human Molecular Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 1873-1876

  Carey, Adam H ^a   Waterworth, Dawn ^a   Patel, Kirty ^a   White, Davinia ^a   Little, Julie ^a   Novelli, Patricia ^a   Franks, Stephen ^a   Williamson, Robert ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE; STEROID 17ALPHA MONOOXYGENASE;

ANDROGEN SYNTHESIS; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME 10Q; GENE SEGREGATION; HUMAN; MALE TYPE ALOPECIA; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; STEROID METABOLISM;

ALLELES; ALOPECIA; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 10; DNA PRIMERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEDIGREE; POINT MUTATION; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 0028024363     PISSN: 09646906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/hmg/3.10.1873     Document Type: Article

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