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CYP1A1, GSTM1 and GSTT1 genetic polymorphism is associated with susceptibility to polycystic ovaries in South Indian women.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Aug 2004
Babu K Arvind, Rao K Lakshmi, Kanakavalli M K, Suryanarayana V V, Deenadayal Mamata, Singh Lalji
Abstract excerpt
Polymorphic variants in the phase I enzyme, cytochrome P450 gene, may lead to increased toxification, whereas polymorphisms in the phase II enzyme, glutathione S-transferase genes, may result in impaired detoxification. Alterations in the activities of phase I drug metabolizing enzymes and phase II detoxification enzymes may cause abnormal functioning and formation of follicular cysts in the ovaries and thus...
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