The results of genetic analyses of women with endometriosis may one day lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating the painful menstrual disorder, new research suggests. What's more, the researchers may have also pinpointed a reason why infertility is often an unfortunate consequence of the condition.
Anywhere from 10 to 15 percent of women have endometriosis, a condition that occurs when the tissue that lines the uterus, the endometrium, exists outside the uterus -- often in the ovaries and fallopian tubes.
Gene study links endometriosis, infertility
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