Endometriosis affects around 10% of individuals born with a uterus, yet we know remarkably little about its underlying biology. Our single-cell transcriptional profiling of endometrial-type epithelial and stromal cells is shedding light on the cells and processes that contribute to endometriosis, which opens up new avenues for diagnostics and therapeutics.
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Fonseca, M. A. S. et al. Single cell transcriptomic analysis of endometriosis. Nat. Genet. https://doi.org/10.1038/10.1038/s41588-022-01254-1 (2022). A paper that reports single-cell transcriptomic analysis of ~50 tissues from 17 patients with endometriosis and four individuals who are unaffected.
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Dissecting endometriosis by single-cell transcriptomic and genomic analysis. Nat Genet 55, 168–169 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-022-01255-0
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