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Genetics of Oocyte Depletion

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Perimenopause

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The genetic control of ovarian development has proved more difficult to elucidate than the analogous search for testicular determinants. This difficulty primarily reflects the reality that not just a single principal gene seems responsible, as SRY is in the male. Instead, ovarian development is governed by loci on both the X chromosome and on the autosomes.

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Simpson, J.L. (1997). Genetics of Oocyte Depletion. In: Lobo, R.A. (eds) Perimenopause. Serono Symposia USA. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2288-0_5

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