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Single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the p53 pathway regulate fertility in humans.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 16 Jun 2009
Kang Hey-Joo, Feng Zhaohui, Sun Yvonne, Atwal Gurinder, Murphy Maureen E, Rebbeck Timothy R, Rosenwaks Zev, Levine Arnold J, Hu Wenwei
Abstract excerpt
The tumor suppressor protein p53 plays an important role in maternal reproduction in mice through transcriptional regulation of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), a cytokine crucial for blastocyst implantation. To determine whether these observations could be extended to humans, a list of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the p53 pathway that can modify the function of p53 was assembled and used to study...
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