Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 2 , Pages 325-330 , February 2008

HOXA10 mutations in congenital absence of uterus and vagina

  • Sasmira Lalwani, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, and Women and Infants Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sasmira Lalwani, M.D., Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, Tufts-New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, PO Box 36, Boston, MA 02111 (FAX: 617-636-5906).
    • ,
  • Hsin-hung Wu, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Richard H. Reindollar, M.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mary Hitchcock Hospital, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, New Hampshire
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  • Mark R. Gray, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 25 August 2006 ,Revised 6 March 2007 ,Accepted 7 March 2007.

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 Presented at the Society for Gynecologic Investigation Annual Meeting, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, March 14–17, 2001, Abstract 390.

PII: S0015-0282(07)00619-X

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.03.033

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 89, Issue 2 , Pages 325-330 , February 2008

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