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The study of MED12 gene mutations in uterine leiomyomas from Iranian patients.
Tumour biology : the journal of the International Society for Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine - 1 Feb 2016
Sadeghi Samaneh, Khorrami Mandana, Amin-Beidokhti Mona, Abbasi Maryam, Kamalian Zeeba, Irani Shiva, Omrani Mirdavood, Azmoodeh Ozra, Mirfakhraie Reza
Abstract excerpt
Uterine leiomyomas are the most common gynecologic benign tumors of the female genital tract that cause a variety of health problems including, abnormal menstrual bleeding, pelvic pain, placenta displacement, premature labor, and miscarriages. Recently, studies showed that recurrent somatic mutations in MED12 exon 2 are the major cause of uterine leiomyomas in different ethnic groups. In order to validate these...
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