Significant evidence of one or more susceptibility loci for endometriosis with near-Mendelian inheritance on chromosome 7p13-15

Human Reproduction

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 717-728

  Zondervan, Krina T ^a   Treloar, Susan A ^c,d   Lin, Jianghai ^b,e   Weeks, Daniel E ^f   Nyholt, Dale R ^c,d   Mangion, Jon ^g   MacKay, Ian J ^g   Cardon, Lon R ^a   Martin, Nicholas G ^c,d   Kennedy, Stephen H ^b   Montgomery, Grant W ^c,d   Wicks, Jacqueline ^d   Wainwright, Brandon J ^d   Henders, Anjali ^d   Zabaneh, Delilah ^g   Dawson, Gary ^g   Smith, Vicki ^g   Carey, Alisoun ^g   Bennett, Simon T ^g   O'Connor, Daniel T ^h   Barlow, David ^b   Lambert, Ann ^b   Ewen White, Kelly R ⁱ   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c Queensland Institute of Medical Research ^*  (Australia)

^d QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^e SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^g Oxagen   (United Kingdom)

^h Queensland Endometriosis Research Institute   (Australia)

ⁱ Australian Genome Research Facility Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chromosome 7; Endometriosis; Family study; Linkage

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOME 7; CLINICAL TRIAL; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHENOTYPE; UNITED KINGDOM;

AUSTRALIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 7; ENDOMETRIOSIS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GREAT BRITAIN; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LOD SCORE; PHENOTYPE;

EID: 34247868137     PISSN: 02681161     EISSN: 14602350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/humrep/del446     Document Type: Article

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