Impact of follicle-stimulating hormone receptor variants in female infertility

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1659-1668

  Ilgaz, Nermin Seda ^a,c   Aydos, Oya Sena Erdogan ^a   Karadag, Aynur ^a   Taspinar, Mehmet ^a,d   Eryilmaz, Ozlem Gun ^b   Sunguroglu, Asuman ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Zekai Tahir Burak Women's Health Training and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

^c CUKUROVA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Follicle stimulating hormone receptor; Infertility; Single nucleotide polymorphisms

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; GENOMIC DNA; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROLACTIN; CODON; FOLLITROPIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; EXON; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FEMALE INFERTILITY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROMOTER REGION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS; BLOOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CODON; GENETICS; MUTATION; TURKEY;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CODON; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE FREQUENCY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INFERTILITY, FEMALE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MUTATION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROLACTIN; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, FSH; TURKEY;

EID: 84947488691     PISSN: 10580468     EISSN: 15737330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10815-015-0572-5     Document Type: Article

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