Researchers from the Boston University Schools of Public Health and Medicine report they have found 13 genetic locations linked to the onset of menopause.

Menopause affects most women in their early 50s and most studies of the age of onset of menopause focused on genes from the estrogen-production pathway or vascular components.

The new study, published online in Nature Genetics, identified 13 novel locations associated with menopause onset, while confirming four previously established locations.

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