Research Project - Open to women in New Zealand with a family history of POF

We are beginning a research project to understand the causes of premature menopause. Our study is based on the hypotheses that identifying and understanding the molecules involved in the development of premature menopause will lead to a way of treating premature menopause. We believe that we can identify the molecules involved by studying families who have inherited premature menopause. If our study is successful, and we identify a gene involved in inherited premature menopause, we suspect that the same gene may also be involved in the more common non-family (sporadic) forms of premature menopause. We plan to study sporadic cases to determine if the same molecules cause them.

Your participation in our research project is absolutely vital! We would like to hear from as many women as possible with premature menopause - New Zealand only!

Our first aim is to identify women with a family history of premature menopause. We would need to ask you some questions (such as age of onset) and take a small blood sample.

Our second aim is to collect blood samples from women with sporadic premature menopause.

If you have premature menopause, we would like to talk to you.
Please phone or write to either:

Dr. Andrew Shelling or Ms. Karen Burton
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
National Women's Hospital
Claude Road
Epsom
Auckland
Phone (09) 630 9943 ext. 3282 or 3255
Fax (09) 630 9858
a.shelling@auckland.ac.nz