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Analysis of LHX8 mutation in premature ovarian failure.
Fertility and sterility - 1 Apr 2008
Qin Yingying, Zhao Han, Kovanci Ertug, Simpson Joe Leigh, Chen Zi-Jiang, Rajkovic Aleksandar
Abstract excerpt
The LHX8 (LIM homeobox 8) gene encodes a LIM homeodomain transcriptional regulator that is preferentially expressed in germ cells and critical for mammalian oogenesis. The authors investigated whether nucleotide changes were present in the LHX8 gene of Caucasian women with premature ovarian failure (POF), as compared with control women. When the authors sequenced 95 Caucasian women with POF, they discovered two...
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