Asghar, T

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus · active 2004-2005

Study types

  • article 2

Condition tags

  • endometriosis 2
article 2005
Lack of association between endometriosis and the CYP17 MspA1 polymorphism in UK and Japanese populations.

Endometriosis is a complex trait, which means that multiple susceptibility genes interact with one another and the environment to produce the phenotype. One of the genes previously implicated in the disease is CYP17; this encodes the enzyme…

article 2004
The tumor necrosis factor-alpha promoter -1031C polymorphism is associated with decreased risk of endometriosis in a Japanese population.

BACKGROUND: Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) is a multifunctional proinflammatory cytokine, associated with various inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Elevated TNF-alpha levels in peritoneal fluid have been reported in women with …