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Identification of a polycystic ovary syndrome susceptibility variant in fibrillin-3 and association with a metabolic phenotype.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Nov 2007
Urbanek Margrit, Sam Susan, Legro Richard S, Dunaif Andrea
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CONTEXT: Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), the most common reproductive endocrine disorder of premenopausal women, is also associated with metabolic abnormalities including insulin resistance and an increased risk for diabetes mellitus. We previously mapped a PCOS susceptibility locus to chromosome 19p13.2 near the dinucleotide repeat marker D19S884. OBJECTIVE: Our objective is to localize the chromosome 19p13.2...
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