Rarity of PIT1 involvement in children from Russia with combined pituitary hormone deficiency

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 360-365

  Fofanova, Olga V ^a   Takamura, Noboru ^b   Kinoshita, Ei Ichi ^b   Yoshimoto, Masaaki ^b   Tsuji, Yoshiro ^b   Peterkova, Valentina A ^a   Evgrafov, Oleg V ^a   Dedov, Ivan I ^a   Goncharov, Nikolai P ^a   Yamashita, Shunichi ^b,c  

^a RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Combined pituitary hormone deficiency; Genomic imprinting; GHF 1; Mutation; Pit 1

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1;

ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; COMBINED PITUITARY HORMONE DEFICIENCY; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOME IMPRINTING; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; DWARFISM, PITUITARY; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIGREE; PITUITARY HORMONES; PROLACTIN; RUSSIA; THYROTROPIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT-1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 17544393646     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19980605)77:5<360::AID-AJMG4>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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