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Clinical features in women with polycystic ovaries: relationships to insulin sensitivity, insulin gene VNTR and birth weight.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Oct 2001
Michelmore K, Ong K, Mason S, Bennett S, Perry L, Vessey M, Balen A, Dunger D
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OBJECTIVE: Polycystic ovaries are a common ultrasound finding, yet few of these women have many clinical features of polycystic ovary syndrome. Clinical presentation may relate to degree of insulin resistance, common polymorphism at the insulin gene VNTR, and birth weight. We therefore examined the relationship between insulin sensitivity, insulin gene VNTR genotype, birth weight and presence of polycystic...
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