书目名称 | Polycystic Ovary Syndrome |
副标题 | Current Controversie |
编辑 | Andrea Dunaif,R. Jeffrey Chang,Richard S. Legro |
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概述 | Editors include four of the leading experts in the international community.Text consists of compilation of international expert opinion / consensus.Content is comprehensive and includes bench research |
丛书名称 | Contemporary Endocrinology |
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描述 | .All four editors of this title are extremely prominent in the field of PCOS. Although they are all U.S.-based, they are internationally renowned. The book includes the latest diagnostic criteria for PCOS, and comprises the most up to date information about the genetic features and pathogenesis of PCOS...The diagnostic criteria for PCOS took shape in 1990 following an NIH conference co-organized by Dr. Dunaif, resulting in her classic volume, Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (1992). That title recommended diagnostic criteria of hyperandrogenism and chronic anovulation with the exclusion of specific disorder of the ovary, adrenal, and pituitary. These criteria dominated the field but were revised in 2003 by a working group of international experts at a conference in Rotterdam. Since then, it has become increasingly clear over the past several years that PCOS is a complex genetic disease resulting from the interaction of susceptibility genes and environmental factors. This volume critically reviews the methodological approaches and the evidence for various PCOS susceptibility genes. Additional familial phenotypes of PCOS and their potential genetic basis are also discussed. In all, this tit |
出版日期 | Book 2008 |
关键词 | Hyperandrogenism; Ovary; PCOS; Pancreas; genes; genetics; insulin; diabetes |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-108-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-61737-796-9 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-59745-108-6Series ISSN 2523-3785 Series E-ISSN 2523-3793 |
issn_series | 2523-3785 |
copyright | Humana Press 2008 |