Article
Ethnic variations in uterine leiomyoma biology are not caused by differences in myometrial estrogen receptor alpha levels.
Journal of the Society for Gynecologic Investigation - 1 Feb 2003
Amant Frédéric, Huys Erik, Geurts-Moespot Anneke, Lindeque B G, Vergote Ignace, Sweep Fred, Schoenmakers Eric F P M
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Uterine leiomyomas develop in women of reproductive age and regress after menopause, suggesting that they grow in a steroid hormone-dependent fashion. Furthermore, it is widely accepted that symptomatic uterine leiomyomas occur at a twofold to threefold higher frequency in black women than in white women. The present study was designed to investigate a possible physiologic role of racial differences in...
Topics
- Adult
- Black People
- Estrogen Receptor alpha
- Female
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Leiomyoma
- Middle Aged
- Myometrium
- RNA, Messenger
- Receptors, Estrogen
- Receptors, Progesterone
- Uterine Neoplasms
- White People