Association of estrogen receptor gene polymorphisms with endometriosis

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 164-166

  Georgiou, Ioannis ^a   Syrrou, Maria ^a   Bouba, Ioanna ^a   Dalkalitsis, Nikolaos ^a   Paschopoulos, Minas ^a   Navrozoglou, Iordanis ^a   Lolis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Estrogen receptor; Multiallele polymorphism; Two allele polymorphism

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ENDOMETRIOSIS; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0033169018     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00198-3     Document Type: Article

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