Mafra F
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· 3 papers in corpus
observational
2016
Copy number variation analysis reveals additional variants contributing to endometriosis development
PURPOSE: Endometriosis is a gynecological disease influenced by multiple genetic and environmental factors. The aim of the current study was to use SNP-array technology to identify genomic aberrations that may possibly contribute to the dev…
observational
2015
PURPOSE: Recently, several genome-wide association studies have demonstrated an association between endometriosis and markers located in or near to WNT4 gene. In order to assess the validity of the findings, we conducted a replication case-…
observational
2014
PURPOSE: Estrogen metabolizing gene mutations can be associated with defective hormonal signaling leading to disease processes. Endometriosis is an estrogen dependent that can be influenced by defective signaling in the estrogen pathway. O…