L. R. Cardon

No ORCID on file · 3 papers in corpus · active 2001-2005

Study types

  • review 2
  • article 1

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 3
article 2005
First evidence that one or more rare genetic polymorphisms with high penetrance may be involved in the aetiology of endometriosis
review 2002
The Genetic Epidemiology of Spontaneous Endometriosis in the Rhesus Monkey
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences ·doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2002.tb02784.x

The etiology of endometriosis is uncertain, but there is increasing evidence that it is inherited as a complex genetic trait like diabetes or asthma. In such complex traits, multiple gene loci conferring susceptibility to the disease intera…

review 2001
The genetic basis of endometriosis
Current opinion in obstetrics & gynecology ·doi:10.1097/00001703-200106000-00011

Family studies have long suggested a role for genetic factors in the aetiology of endometriosis. The influence of genes on disease development has mainly been researched independently of environmental factors, yet their interaction must pla…