Endocrine Abstracts

Estrogens play an important role in male physiology. We investigated the possible association of four single nucleotide polymorphisms in estrogen receptor α (ER1) and Estrogen Receptor β (ER2) genes with circulating levels of sex steroids and Sex Hormone Binding Globulin (SHBG) in men.SHBG, total and calculated free testosterone (TT and cal FT), estradiol (E2) and free estradiol (FE2) were determined in a population based cohort of 170 apparent...