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Polymorphisms of the androgen receptor gene and hormonal contraceptive induced provoked vestibulodynia.
The journal of sexual medicine - 1 Nov 2014
Goldstein Andrew T, Belkin Zoe R, Krapf Jill M, Song Weitao, Khera Mohit, Jutrzonka Sarah L, Kim Noel N, Burrows Lara J, Goldstein Irwin
Abstract excerpt
AIM: Women who developed vestibulodynia (vulvar vestibulitis) while taking combined hormonal contraceptives (CHCs) and a control group of women were tested for polymorphisms of the gene coding for the androgen receptor (AR) that is located on the X chromosome. STUDY DESIGN: DNA from 30 women who developed vestibulodynia while taking CHCs and 17 control women were tested for the number of cytosine-adenine-guanine...
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