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SUBMITTER: Ewens KG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3124609 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Fertility and sterility 20110327 8
Two cohorts of women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS), comprising 400 probands and affected sisters in 365 families and a case-control group including 395 women with PCOS and 171 healthy women with regular menstrual cycles, were studied to determine whether single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) identified as susceptibility loci in genomewide association studies of type 2 diabetes are also associated with PCOS. None of the 18 allelic variants in 10 genes previously shown to be associated wi ...[more]