Luis E. Figuera

ORCID: 0000-0002-6096-4579 · 3 papers in corpus · active 2012-2025

Study types

  • article 2
  • other 1

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  • endometriosis 3
other 2025
Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) ·doi:10.3390/diseases13080248

BACKGROUD: Endometriosis is a chronic, estrogen-dependent inflammatory disease characterized by the ectopic presence of endometrial-like tissue. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified susceptibility variants, their …

article 2012
Genetics and molecular research : GMR ·doi:10.4238/2012.may.15.10

The TP53 tumor suppressor gene plays an important role in cell cycle regulation; polymorphisms of this gene have been associated with endometriosis. We examined the role of TP53 codon 72 polymorphism by comparing genotypes of 235 healthy Me…

article 2012
Gynecologic and obstetric investigation ·doi:10.1159/000330702

BACKGROUND/AIM: The TP53 tumor suppressor gene encodes the nuclear phosphoprotein p53, which plays an important role in cell cycle regulation, apoptosis, DNA repair and angiogenesis. The TP53 gene contains common genetic polymorphisms that …