Estrogen receptor alpha polymorphisms and fertility in populations with different reproductive patterns

Molecular Human Reproduction

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 537-540

  Corbo, R M ^a,b   Ulizzi, L ^a   Piombo, L ^a   Martinez Labarga, C ^b   De Stefano, G F ^b   Scacchi, R ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

African Ecuadorian women; ESR1 gene polymorphisms; Fertility; Italian men and women

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA;

ABORTION; ADULT; AFRICA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECUADOR; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; INFERTILITY; ITALY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; REPRODUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECUADOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

MUS;

EID: 34547745969     PISSN: 13609947     EISSN: 14602407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molehr/gam041     Document Type: Article

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