Research Article

The Association between Deoxyribonucleic Acid Hypermethylation in Intron VII and Human Leukocyte Antigen-C07 Expression in Patients with Endometriosis

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The deoxyribonucleic acid methylation status of human leukocyte antigen-C (HLA-C)07 introns VII. The open and filled circles represent unmethylated and methylated cytosines, respectively. The numbers on top indicate the positions of cytosine residues of 5′–C–phosphate–G–3′ relative to the transcriptional start site (+1). A total of 16 HLA-C07-carrier individuals were enrolled: eight patients with endometriosis and eight healthy women. Both the eutopic and ectopic endometria of the patients were analyzed.