Mutation analysis of the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor gene in girls with gonadotropin-independent precocious puberty resulting from autonomous cystic ovaries

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 280-283

  Batista, Marcelo Cidade ^a   Kohek, Maria Beatriz Fonte ^a   Turri Frazzatto, Eliana Salgado ^a   Fragoso, Maria Candida Villares ^a   Mendonça, Berenice Bilharinho ^a   Latronico, Ana Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Activating mutations; Follicle stimulating hormone; Ovaries; Precocious puberty

Indexed keywords

FOLLITROPIN RECEPTOR;

ALBRIGHT SYNDROME; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; DENATURING GRADIENT GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OVARY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEPTOR GENE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ELECTROPHORESIS; FEMALE; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMANS; OVARIAN CYSTS; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; RECEPTORS, FSH;

EID: 0033983997     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(99)00520-8     Document Type: Article

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