Impact of estrogen replacement therapy in a male with congenital aromatase deficiency caused by a novel mutation in the CYP19 gene

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 87, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 5476-5484

  Herrmann, Burkhard Lorenz ^a   Saller, Bernhard ^a   Janssen, Onno Eilard ^a   Gocke, Peter ^a   Bockisch, Andreas ^a   Sperling, Herbert ^a   Mann, Klaus ^a   Broecker, Martina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATASE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ESTRADIOL; GENOMIC DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERALIZATION; BONE TURNOVER; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL DISORDER; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GENE MUTATION; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LIPID METABOLISM; LUMBAR SPINE; MALE; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; PEDIGREE ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEMEN ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AROMATASE; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BONE DENSITY; BONE DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; LIPIDS; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEDIGREE; RNA, MESSENGER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036925191     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2002-020498     Document Type: Article

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