Menarche

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences. 
  • Age at menarche, time to regular cycling, and breast cancer (North Carolina, United States). 
  • Association of maternal and intrauterine characteristics with age at menarche in a multiethnic population in Hawaii. 
  • Childhood experience and the onset of menarche: a test of a sociobiological model. 
  • Early childhood nutrition, education and fertility milestones in Guatemala. 
  • Early-life soy exposure and age at menarche. 
  • Evaluation of established breast cancer risk factors as modifiers of BRCA1 or BRCA2: a multi-center case-only analysis. 
  • Exogenous hormone use, reproductive factors, and risk of intracranial meningioma in females. 
  • Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States. 
  • Genomic analyses identify hundreds of variants associated with age at menarche and support a role for puberty timing in cancer risk. 
  • Individual differences are accentuated during periods of social change: the sample case of girls at puberty. 
  • Influence of oral contraceptives on the incidence of premalignant and malignant lesions of the cervix. 
  • Menstrual cycle characteristics are associated with fecundability. 
  • Offspring number, pregnancy, and risk of a first clinical demyelinating event: the AusImmune Study. 
  • Outcomes of early pubertal timing in young women: a prospective population-based study. 
  • Ovarian cancer risk factors in African-American and white women. 
  • Parent-of-origin-specific allelic associations among 106 genomic loci for age at menarche. 
  • Preterm birth, fetal growth, and age at menarche among women exposed prenatally to diethylstilbestrol (DES). 
  • Rare coding variants and X-linked loci associated with age at menarche. 
  • Reported early family environment covaries with menarcheal age as a function of polymorphic variation in estrogen receptor-α. 
  • Risk factors for breast cancer characterized by the estrogen receptor alpha A908G (K303R) mutation. 
  • Secondary sexual characteristics in children with cerebral palsy and moderate to severe motor impairment: a cross-sectional survey. 
  • Structural anomalies of the cervix and vagina in women enrolled in the Diethylstilbestrol Adenosis (DESAD) Project. 
  • Targeting risk factors for reducing the racially disparate burden in breast cancer. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute