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Functional study of a novel missense single-nucleotide variant of NUP107 in two daughters of Mexican origin with premature ovarian insufficiency.
Molecular genetics & genomic medicine - 1 Mar 2018
Ren Yu, Diao Feiyang, Katari Sunita, Yatsenko Svetlana, Jiang Huaiyang, Wood-Trageser Michelle A, Rajkovic Aleksandar
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BACKGROUND: Hypergonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) is a genetically heterogeneous disorder that usually presents with amenorrhea, atrophic ovaries, and low estrogen. Most cases of HH are idiopathic and nonsyndromic. Nucleoporin 107 (NUP107), a protein involved in transport between cytoplasm and nucleus with putative roles in meiosis/mitosis progression, was recently implicated as a cause of HH. We identified a...
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