Tall stature, insulin resistance, and disturbed behavior in a girl with the triple X syndrome harboring three SHOX genes: Offspring of a father with mosaic Klinefelter syndrome but with two maternal X chromosomes

Hormone Research

Volumn 61, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 205-210

  Kanaka Gantenbein, Christina ^a,c   Kitsiou, Sophia ^a   Mavrou, Ariadni ^a   Stamoyannou, Lela ^a   Kolialexi, Aggeliki ^a   Kekou, Kyriaki ^a   Liakopoulou, Magda ^a   Chrousos, George ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^c NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Depression, triple X syndrome; Insulin resistance; Klinefelter syndrome; SHOX gene; Tall stature; Triple X syndrome, parental origin

Indexed keywords

ACNE; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MOSAICISM; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DNA DETERMINATION; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION; FEMALE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPLICATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HUMAN; INSULIN RESISTANCE; KARYOTYPE 47,XXX; KARYOTYPING; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; METABOLISM; PARENT; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; SCHOOL CHILD; SHOX GENE; SUPERNUMERARY CHROMOSOME; SYMPTOM; TALL STATURE; X CHROMOSOME; X CHROMOSOME ABERRATION;

BODY HEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CYTOGENETIC ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; INSULIN RESISTANCE; SEX CHROMOSOME DISORDERS; SYNDROME; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 1842862796     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000076532     Document Type: Article

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