Impact of follicle stimulating hormone receptor variants in fertility

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 158-167

  Lalioti, Maria D ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

follicle stimulating hormone; follicle stimulating hormone receptor; in vitro fertilization; single nucleotide polymorphisms; splice variants

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; THYROTROPIN;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED OVARIAN STIMULATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; MALE INFERTILITY; NEOPLASM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; OVARY HYPERSTIMULATION; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; PREMATURE OVARIAN FAILURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RECEPTOR GENE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPLICING DEFECT;

FEMALE; FERTILITY; HUMANS; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, FSH;

EID: 79955957585     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: 1473656X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/GCO.0b013e3283455288     Document Type: Review

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