Heritability and molecular genetic studies of endometriosis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 955, Issue , 2002, Pages 239-251

  Simpson, Joe Leigh ^a   Bischoff, Farideh Z ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Endometriosis; Gene expression; Heritability; Oncogenes; Polygenic; Quantitative linkage analysis

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PAPER; ENDOMETRIOSIS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MAPPING; GENE NUMBER; HERITABILITY; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MULTIFACTORIAL INHERITANCE; ONCOGENE;

EID: 0036213739     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02785.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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