Familial gonadotropin-releasing hormone resistance and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a family with multiple affected individuals

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1148-1155

  Layman, Lawrence C ^a   McDonough, Paul G ^a   Cohen, David P ^a   Maddox, Mary ^a   Tho, Sandra P T ^a   Reindollar, Richard H ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

GnRH receptor; Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; Molecular genetics; Ring chromosome 21

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; GONADOTROPIN; HUMAN MENOPAUSAL GONADOTROPIN; INSULIN; PROTIRELIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 21; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CYSTADENOCARCINOMA; FAMILIAL DISEASE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; GONADOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; KARYOTYPE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; OVULATION INDUCTION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RING CHROMOSOME;

ADULT; ANIMALS; COS CELLS; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; RECEPTORS, LHRH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0035003309     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0015-0282(01)01782-4     Document Type: Article

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