Molecular genetics of human growth hormone, insulin-like growth factors and their pathways in common disease

Human Genetics

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-21

  Rodriguez, Santiago ^a   Gaunt, Tom R ^a   Day, Ian N M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; GENE PRODUCT; GHRELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR LIGAND; GROWTH HORMONE SECRETAGOGUE RECEPTOR; INSULIN; PROTEIN PROP1; PROTEIN SST; PROTEIN SSTR1; PROTEIN SSTR2; PROTEIN SSTR5; RECOMBINANT SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN B; SOMATOMEDIN B RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 2; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 4; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 6; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 7; SOMATOMEDIN C; SOMATOMEDIN C RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PIT 1; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENESIS; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHROMOSOME 17; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LINKAGE DISEQUILIBRIUM; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HAPLOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE MAP; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MANIA; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOGENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REGULATORY SEQUENCE; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE THERAPY; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INSULIN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR II; METABOLIC DISEASES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUTATION; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; PHARMACOGENETICS; REGULATORY ELEMENTS, TRANSCRIPTIONAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOMATOMEDINS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 34447289392     PISSN: 03406717     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00439-007-0378-3     Document Type: Review

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