SMAD3 and female infertility: Specifically, VDR is associated with female infertility (Djurovic et al., 2020), whereas CEBPB has been described as relevant factor for female reproduction for its role in ovarian follicle development (Fan et al., 2009), together with SMAD3 (Tomic et al., 2004; Li et al., 2008) and ESR2 (Khristi et al., 2018; Chakravarthi et al., 2020).