Worldwide frequency of a common genetic variant of luteinizing hormone: An international collaborative research

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 998-1004

  Nilsson, Christe ^a   Matzuk, Martin M ^l   Pettersson, Kim ^a   Huhtaniemi, Ilpo T ^a   Millar, Robert P ^k   Coerver, Katherine A ^l   Savontaus, Marja Liisa ^a   Punab, Margus ^b   Pisarek, Hana ^c   Kula, Krzysztof ^c   Pettersson, Tom M ^d   Van Santbrink, Evert J B ^e   Fauser, Bart C J M ^e   Clayton, Richard N ^f   Beck Peccoz, Paolo ^g   Fujieda, Kenji ^h   Aribarg, Anek ⁱ   Wang, Chun Nian ^j  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

^d CALAB Medical Laboratories   (Sweden)

^e ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^f KEELE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^h HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

^j SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^l BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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Author keywords

Ethnic variation; Immunoassay; Luteinizing hormone; Luteinizing hormone variant; Mutation; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

DNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; IMMUNOASSAY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POINT MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0343742651     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81430-6     Document Type: Article

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