Robert A. Vierkant

ORCID: 0000-0001-6242-5221 · 28 papers in corpus
observational 2011
Progesterone receptor gene polymorphisms and risk of endometriosis: results from an international collaborative effort
Fertility and sterility ·doi:10.1016/j.fertnstert.2010.06.059

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between self-reported endometriosis and the putative functional promoter +331C/T single nucleotide polymorphism and the PROGINS allele. DESIGN: Control subjects from ovarian cancer case-control stu…

rct 2011
Risk factors for meningioma in postmenopausal women: results from the Iowa Women's Health Study
Neuro-oncology ·doi:10.1093/neuonc/nor081

Few risk factors for meningioma, aside from increasing age and female sex, have been identified. We investigated risk factors for meningioma in elderly women, a group with a high incidence. We evaluated associations of demographic, lifestyl…

observational 2008
Polymorphism in the IL18 gene and epithelial ovarian cancer in non-Hispanic white women
Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology ·doi:10.1158/1055-9965.epi-08-0548

Over 22,000 cases of ovarian cancer were diagnosed in 2007 in the United States, but only a fraction of them can be attributed to mutations in highly penetrant genes such as BRCA1. To determine whether low-penetrance genetic variants contri…