ArticleNature communications2015
Genome-wide association of polycystic ovary syndrome implicates alterations in gonadotropin secretion in European ancestry populations.
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- Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses of polycystic ovary syndrome.Nature genetics · 2025Pooled it
- Polycystic ovary syndrome with stroke, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC women's health · 2025Pooled it
- Body mass index stratified meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of polycystic ovary syndrome in women of European ancestry.BMC genomics · 2024Pooled it
- New insights into the (epi)genetics of twinning.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2024Pooled it
- Shared genetic correlations between kidney diseases and sepsis.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Pooled it
- Leveraging Northern European population history: novel low-frequency variants for polycystic ovary syndrome.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2022Pooled it
- Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and NC-CAH: Distinct Characteristics and Common Findings. A Systematic Review.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2019Pooled it
- Large-scale meta-analysis highlights the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis in the genetic regulation of menstrual cycle length.Human molecular genetics · 2018Pooled it
- Large-scale genome-wide meta-analysis of polycystic ovary syndrome suggests shared genetic architecture for different diagnosis criteria.PLoS genetics · 2018Pooled it
- Association study of androgen signaling pathway genes in polycystic ovary syndrome.Fertility and sterility · 2016Pooled it
- Kisspeptin and neurokinin B interactions in modulating gonadotropin secretion in women with polycystic ovary syndrome.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2020Trial
- Kisspeptin treatment induces gonadotropic responses and rescues ovulation in a subset of preclinical models and women with polycystic ovary syndrome.Human reproduction (Oxford, England) · 2019Trial
- Systems genetics approaches model the heritable architecture of polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Article
- A single-nucleus multiomic study of preoptic area cells in prepubertal control vs prenatally androgenized female mice.Endocrinology · 2026Article
- Advancing PCOS drug development: multi-omics discovery of key targets and repurposable compounds.Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology · 2026Article
- Polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS)/polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS): current and future trends.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2026Review
- BMI-Dependent Correlations of Sex Hormone Genes with Simple Endometrial Hyperplasia.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Preimplantation genetic testing for polygenic diseases: A novel paradigm in embryo selection.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2026Review
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Abstract
Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a common, highly heritable complex disorder of unknown aetiology characterized by hyperandrogenism, chronic anovulation and defects in glucose homeostasis. Increased luteinizing hormone relative to follicle-stimulating hormone secretion, insulin resistance and developmental exposure to androgens are hypothesized to play a causal role in PCOS. Here we map common genetic susceptibility loci in European ancestry women for the National Institutes of Health PCOS phenotype, which confers the highest risk for metabolic morbidities, as well as reproductive hormone levels. Three loci reach genome-wide significance in the case-control meta-analysis, two novel loci mapping to chr 8p23.1 [Corrected] and chr 11p14.1, and a chr 9q22.32 locus previously found in Chinese PCOS. The same chr 11p14.1 SNP, rs11031006, in the region of the follicle-stimulating hormone B polypeptide (FSHB) gene strongly associates with PCOS diagnosis and luteinizing hormone levels. These findings implicate neuroendocrine changes in disease pathogenesis.
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