1. Endocrine-disrupting chemicals and uterine fibroids
Tiffany A. Katz, Ph.D., Qiwei Yang, Ph.D., Lindsey S. Treviño, Ph.D., Cheryl Lyn Walker, Ph.D., Ayman Al-Hendy, M.D., Ph.D. 
Fertility and Sterility 
Volume 106, Issue 4, Pages (September 2016)
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2. Figure 1
Developmental exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) induces genetic/epigenetic abnormalities in myometrial stem cells, which lead to uterine fibroid (UF) development. Environmental factors including EDCs induce genetic/epigenetic alterations, thereby leading to the conversion of myometrial stem cells into tumor initiating cells, eventually giving rise to the formation of UFs.
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