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Association of an oestrogen receptor gene polymorphism in Chinese Han women with endometriosis and endometriosis-related infertility.
Reproductive biomedicine online - 1 Jan 2013
Wang Wenwen, Li Yan, Maitituoheti Mayinuer, Yang Runfeng, Wu Zhangying, Wang Tian, Ma Ding, Wang Shixuan
Abstract excerpt
Endometriosis is a steroid-dependent complex disease. The oestrogen receptor plays an important role by mediating oestrogen action and eutopic or ectopic endometrium development. This study investigated whether single-nucleotide polymorphisms in the genes for oestrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) and oestrogen receptor 2 (ESR2) are associated with endometriosis and endometriosis-related infertility. The participants...
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