Research History
Estrogen receptors were first identified by Elwood V. Jensen at the University of Chicago in 1958, for which Jensen was awarded the Lasker Award. The gene for a second estrogen receptor (ERĪ²) was identified in 1996 by Kuiper et al. in rat prostate and ovary using degenerate ERalpha primers.
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