Follicle-stimulating hormone receptor gene mutations are rare in Japanese women with premature ovarian failure and polycystic ovary syndrome

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 207-209

  Takakura, Kenji ^a   Takebayashi, Koichi ^a   Wang, Hua Qin ^a   Kimura, Fuminori ^a   Kasahara, Kyoko ^a   Noda, Yoichi ^a  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE); FSH receptor gene; Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS); Polymerase chain reaction (PCR); Premature ovarian failure (POF)

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OVARY INSUFFICIENCY; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SECONDARY AMENORRHEA;

ADULT; AMENORRHEA; DNA; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; OVARIAN DISEASES; POLYCYSTIC OVARY SYNDROME; RECEPTORS, FSH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 0035164938     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(00)01673-3     Document Type: Article

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