Pharmacogenetics of G-protein-coupled receptors variants: FSH receptor and infertility treatment

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 189-200

  Santi, Daniele ^a   Potì, Francesco ^a   Simoni, Manuela ^a   Casarini, Livio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

FSH; FSH receptor; infertility; single nucleotide polymorphism

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR;

FEMALE; FEMALE INFERTILITY; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHARMACOGENETICS; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; TREATMENT RESPONSE; AGONISTS; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; GENETICS; INFERTILITY; MUTATION;

FEMALE; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MALE; MUTATION; PHARMACOGENETICS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RECEPTORS, FSH; RECEPTORS, G-PROTEIN-COUPLED;

EID: 85041751738     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: 15321908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2018.01.001     Document Type: Review

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