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Oestrogen receptor B-region polymorphism and spontaneous abortion in women with breast cancer.
Lancet (London, England) - 17 Mar 1990
Lehrer S, Sanchez M, Song H K, Dalton J, Levine E, Savoretti P, Thung S N, Schachter B
Abstract excerpt
To examine whether a variant human oestrogen receptor gene, which differs from the wild-type gene in the B region, was associated with spontaneous abortion, obstetric histories of breast cancer patients with this variant were compared with those of breast cancer patients with the wild-type gene. In women with the B-variant, 50% of pregnancies ended in spontaneous abortion, compared with 10% for women homozygous...
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