Expression of size-polymorphic androgen receptor (AR) gene in ovarian endometriosis according to the number of cytosine, adenine, and guanine (CAG) repeats in AR alleles

Steroids

Volumn 64, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 526-529

  Fujimoto, Jiro ^a   Hirose, Reiko ^a   Sakaguchi, Hideki ^a   Tamaya, Teruhiko ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; CAG repeat; Clonality; Ovarian endometriosis

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; X CHROMOSOME INACTIVATION;

ADENINE; ADULT; CYTOSINE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GUANINE; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; OVARIAN DISEASES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 0032820529     PISSN: 0039128X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-128X(99)00025-2     Document Type: Article

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