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SUBMITTER: Matsuzaka Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3437353 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Matsuzaka Yasunari Y Kikuti Yukie Y YY Izumi Shun-ichiro S Goya Kenichi K Suzuki Takahiro T Cai Li-yi LY Oka Akira A Inoko Hidetoshi H Kulski Jerzy K JK Kimura Minoru M
Environmental health and preventive medicine 20120106 5
<h4>Objectives</h4>The aim of the study was to test whether estrogen receptor 1 (ESR1) gene polymorphisms are correlated with the risk of the development of endometriosis in Japanese women, as a preliminary study.<h4>Methods</h4>To compare allelic frequencies and genotype distributions, a case-control study of 100 affected women and 143 women with no evidence of disease was performed using 10 microsatellite repeat markers and 66 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the ESR1 gene region.<h4> ...[more]