DAX1 and X-linked adrenal hypoplasia congenita: Clinical and molecular analysis in five patients

European Journal of Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 685-689

  Mantovani, Giovanna ^a   De Menis, Ernesto ^b   Borretta, Giorgio ^c   Radetti, Giorgio ^b   Bondioni, Sara ^a   Spada, Anna ^a   Persani, Luca ^a,d   Beck Peccoz, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE CA FONCELLO   (Italy)

^c S CROCE E CARLE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d ISTITUTO AUXOLOGICO ITALIANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTISONE ACETATE; DNA; HYDROCORTISONE; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; UROFOLLITROPIN;

ADRENAL DISEASE; ADRENAL HYPOPLASIA; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AZOOSPERMIA; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE FUNCTION TEST; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; INFANT DISEASE; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUBERTY; RETE TESTIS; SEMEN ANALYSIS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPERMATOGENESIS; TESTIS DISEASE; X CHROMOSOME LINKED DISORDER;

ADOLESCENT; ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; ADULT; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MALE; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; RNA SPLICE SITES; TESTIS;

EID: 33744523194     PISSN: 08044643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1530/eje.1.02132     Document Type: Article

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