Comparative skeletal features between Homo floresiensis and patients with primary growth hormone insensitivity (Laron Syndrome)

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-208

  Hershkovitz, Israel ^a   Kornreich, Liora ^a   Laron, Zvi ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

GH receptor; Homo floresiensis; Human evolution; Laron syndrome

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE TISSUE; BRAIN SIZE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOMO FLORESIENSIS; HUMAN; INBRED STRAIN; ISRAEL; LARON SYNDROME; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; SKULL; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ANIMALS; BODY HEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CONSANGUINITY; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LARON SYNDROME; MALE; MUTATION; PELVIS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; SKULL; THORAX; ULNA;

EID: 34548751187     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20655     Document Type: Article

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