ESPE Abstracts

Primary ovarian insufficiency (POI) affects about 1% of females under 40 and represents a major cause of female infertility. Approximately one third of POI are of genetic in origin, including FMR1 premutation, Turner syndrome and approximately 60 other genes, involved in development, hormonal signaling, cell division and survival, immunity, and metabolism. MCM8 is a recently discovered gene that plays an important role in homologous recombination and DNA repair and only up to ...