Gonadotropin-releasing hormone deficiency in the human (idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and Kallmann's syndrome): Pathophysiological and genetic considerations

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 521-539

  Seminara, Stephanie B ^a   Hayes, Frances J ^a   Crowley Jr , William F ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE;

ANOSMIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; KALLMANN SYNDROME; ONSET AGE; ONTOGENY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; REVIEW; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; X CHROMOSOME LINKAGE;

ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GONADOTROPINS; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; KALLMANN SYNDROME; LINKAGE (GENETICS); LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; OLFACTION DISORDERS; PEDIGREE; PREGNANCY; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031694570     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.19.5.521     Document Type: Review

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