Sherman Elias

No ORCID on file · 6 papers in corpus
article 1998
·doi:10.1016/s1071-5576(97)86371-x
article 1997
Human genetics ·doi:10.1007/s004390050524

Endometriosis affects 10-15% of women of reproductive age and is a common cause of infertility and pelvic pain. Although endometriosis is characterized by abnormal growth or turn-over of cells, the genetic changes involved remain unclear. W…

article 1984
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/0002-9378(84)90714-2

A study of 53 individuals failed to reveal an association between any HLA antigen and endometriosis. Division of the sample into those having a relative affected with endometriosis (N = 11) and those not having such a relative (N = 42) simi…

article 1980
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/0002-9378(80)90917-5

Systematic genetic studies in endometriosis apparently have not been conducted; therefore, we studied 123 patients with histologically proved endometriosis. Nine of 153 (5.8%) female sibs (over age 18) of patients with histologically proved…

article 1980
·doi:10.1016/0002-9378(80)90918-7

Clinical characteristics of patients with histologically confirmed pelvic endometriosis who had an affected first-degree relative (N = 18) were compared to those who had no such affected relative (N = 105). The only significant difference w…

article 1980
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology

Clinical characteristics of patients with histologically confirmed pelvic endometriosis who had an affected first-degree relative (N = 18) were compared to those who had no such affected relative (N = 105). The only significant difference w…