Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Common variants in ZMIZ1 and near NGF confer risk for primary dysmenorrhoea

  • Zhiqiang Li,
  • Jianhua Chen,
  • Ying Zhao,
  • Yujiong Wang,
  • Jinrui Xu,
  • Jue Ji,
  • Jingyi Shen,
  • Weiping Zhang,
  • Zuosong Chen,
  • Qilin Sun,
  • Lijuan Mao,
  • Shulin Cheng,
  • Bo Yang,
  • Dongtao Zhang,
  • Yufeng Xu,
  • Yingying Zhao,
  • Danping Liu,
  • Yinhuan Shen,
  • Weijie Zhang,
  • Changgui Li,
  • Jiawei Shen,
  • Yongyong Shi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14900
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Primary dysmenorrhoea, the most common gynaecologic complaint, remains genetically and pathophysiologically elusive. Here, Li and colleagues identify common variants inZMIZ1 and near NGFconferring risk for primary dysmenorrhoea using genome-wide association study in a Chinese population.