Solitary and multiple uterine leiomyomas among Caucasian women: Two different disorders?

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 94, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2291-2295

  Pakiz, Maja ^a   Potocnik, Uros ^b   But, Igor ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^c Health Institute FB Maribor   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

CYP17A1 gene polymorphisms; etiopathogenesis of uterine leimyomas; solitary and multiple leiomyomas; Uterine leiomyomas

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 17; CYTOCHROME P450 17A1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; FAMILY HISTORY; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENOTYPE; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HOSPITAL BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MULTIPLE UTERUS MYOMA; PARITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEXUAL INTERCOURSE; SMOKING; SOLITARY UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS MYOMA; VEIN PUNCTURE;

ADULT; ALLELES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREVALENCE; SLOVENIA; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 78049299998     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.12.072     Document Type: Article

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