Early onset of puberty: Tracking genetic and environmental factors

Hormone Research

Volumn 64, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2005, Pages 41-47

  Parent, Anne Simone ^a   Rasier, Gregory ^a   Gerard, Arlette ^a   Heger, Sabine ^b   Roth, Christian ^b   Mastronardi, Claudio ^b   Jung, Heike ^b   Ojeda, Sergio R ^b   Bourguignon, Jean Pierre ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT); Endocrine disrupting chemicals; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamic hamartoma; Secular trend

Indexed keywords

CHLORPHENOTANE; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTOR;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENETIC REGULATION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HAMARTOMA; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS FUNCTION; IN VIVO STUDY; INCIDENCE; NONHUMAN; POLLUTANT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CHILD; DDT; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS; ENVIRONMENT; ESTROGEN ANTAGONISTS; FEMALE; HAMARTOMA; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMIC DISEASES; MALE; MENARCHE; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS;

EID: 27944448944     PISSN: 03010163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000087753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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