Growth hormone deficiency type IB caused by cryptic splicing of the GH-1 gene

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 21-28

  Abdul Latif, Hussein ^a   Leiberman, Esther ^b,c   Brown, Milton R ^a   Carmi, Rivka ^b   Parks, John S ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bridging primer; Cryptic splice site; Growth hormone deficiency; Linkage analysis; mRNA splicing; Reverse transcription PCR

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INTRON; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RNA SPLICING; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

EID: 0033978201     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2000.13.1.21     Document Type: Article

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