Human chorionic gonadotrophin-β gene sequences in women with disorders of HCG production

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 315-320

  Layman, Lawrence C ^a   Edwards, John L ^b,d   Osborne, William E ^b,e   Peak, Douglas B ^c   Gallup, Donald G ^b   Tho, Sandra P T ^b   Reindollar, Richard H ^c   Roach, Dorothy J ^b,f   McDonough, Paul G ^b   Lanclos, Kenneth D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d Provident OB/GYN Associates ^*  (United States)

^e Provident OB/GYN Associates   (United States)

^f Reproductive Endocrinology   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestational trophoblastic disease; Hcg genes; Infertility; Lh genes; Recurrent abortion

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; DNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE DELETION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RECURRENT ABORTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SECRETION; TROPHOBLASTIC TUMOR; UTERUS CANCER;

ABORTION, HABITUAL; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT, HUMAN; DNA; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; PREGNANCY; TROPHOBLASTIC NEOPLASMS; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031114474     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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