Kennedy, SH

No ORCID on file · 4 papers in corpus · active 2002-2012

Study types

  • article 4

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 4
  • dysmenorrhea 1
article 2012
Genome-wide association meta-analysis identifies new endometriosis risk loci

We conducted a genome-wide association meta-analysis of 4,604 endometriosis cases and 9,393 controls of Japanese and European ancestry. We show that rs12700667 on chromosome 7p15.2, previously found to associate with disease in Europeans, r…

article 2005
Genomewide linkage study in 1,176 affected sister pair families identifies a significant susceptibility locus for endometriosis on chromosome 10q26.

Endometriosis is a common gynecological disease that affects up to 10% of women in their reproductive years. It causes pelvic pain, severe dysmenorrhea, and subfertility. The disease is defined as the presence of tissue resembling endometri…

article 2002
Preliminary results from two combined genome-wide scans in endometriosis.
article 2002
What makes a good case-control study? Design issues for complex traits such as endometriosis.

The combined investigation of environmental and genetic risk-factors in complex traits will refocus attention on the case-control study. Endometriosis is an example of a complex trait for which most case-control studies have not followed th…