Endometriosis and genetics: What responsibility for the genes?;Endométriose et génétique : Les gnes sont-ils responsables de la maladie ?

Journal de Gynecologie Obstetrique et Biologie de la Reproduction

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 196-207

  Borghese, B ^a   Vaiman, D ^b,c   De Ziegler, D ^a   Chapron, C ^a,b,c  

^a Université Paris Descartes ^*  (France)

^b INSTITUT COCHIN   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cell cycle; Endometriosis; Epigenetics; Genetics; HOX genes

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

CELL CYCLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HEREDITY; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HOX GENE; HUMAN; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; METASTASIS; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOGENESIS; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW;

DRUG RESISTANCE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, PROGESTERONE; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 77951878672     PISSN: 03682315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jgyn.2010.03.006     Document Type: Review

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