Expression Quantitative Trait Locus Mapping Studies in Mid-secretory Phase Endometrial Cells Identifies HLA-F and TAP2 as Fecundability-Associated Genes

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Burrows, Courtney K ^a   Kosova, Gülüm ^a,c   Herman, Catherine ^a   Patterson, Kristen ^a   Hartmann, Katherine E ^b   Velez Edwards, Digna R ^b   Stephenson, Mary D ^a,d   Lynch, Vincent J ^a   Ober, Carole ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECIDUALIZATION; ENDOMETRIUM; ENDOMETRIUM CELL; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HLA F GENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUTEINIZATION; MID SECRETORY ENDOMETRIUM; NIDATION; PHENOTYPE; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS MAPPING; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TAP2 GENE; TIME TO PREGNANCY; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHROMOSOMAL MAPPING; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCUS;

ANTIGEN PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER 2; HLA ANTIGEN CLASS 1; HLA-F ANTIGENS; TAP2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ADULT; ANTIGEN PEPTIDE TRANSPORTER-2; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; ENDOMETRIUM; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGENS CLASS I; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PREGNANCY; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT LOCI; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 84982811813     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1005858     Document Type: Article

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