KRAS variation and risk of endometriosis

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 12, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 671-676

  Zhao, Zhen Zhen ^a   Nyholt, Dale R ^a   Le, Lien ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^a   James, Michael R ^a   Treloar, Susan A ^a   Montgomery, Grant W ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Association test; Endometriosis; KRAS; Polymorphism

Indexed keywords

B RAF KINASE; K RAS PROTEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATRIX ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION IONIZATION TIME OF FLIGHT MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CELL LINE, TUMOR; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENES, RAS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS B-RAF; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS P21(RAS); QUEENSLAND; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION;

EID: 33750212997     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gal078     Document Type: Article

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