Endocrine Abstracts

Since menarche is the landmark for the beginning of fertility and menopause marks the end of a women’s reproductive lifespan genetics of fertility as well as infertility will be discussed taking recent GWAS data on both menarche and menopause into account.Recently, 30 new loci for age at menarche were identified in a meta-analysis of 32 genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in women of European descent. In addition to two known loci the new loci in...