Variants of the WNT7A gene in Chinese patients with müllerian duct abnormalities

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Dang, Yujie ^a,b   Qin, Yingying ^a,b   Tang, Rong ^a,b   Mu, Yulan ^a   Li, Guangyu ^a,b   Xia, Mingdi ^a,b   Chen, Zi Jiang ^a,b  

^a SHANDONG PROVINCIAL HOSPITAL AFFILIATED TO SHANDONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

M llerian duct abnormalities; single nucleotide polymorphisms; synonymous; WNT7A

Indexed keywords

WNT7A PROTEIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENITAL MALFORMATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MUELLERIAN DUCT; MULLERIAN DUCT ABNORMALITY; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 84863071413     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: 15565653     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2011.11.025     Document Type: Article

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