Gene-environment interactions, not neonatal growth hormone deficiency, time puberty in female rhesus monkeys

Biology of Reproduction

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 736-743

  Wilson, Mark E ^a   Kinkead, Becky ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5HTTLPR; Behavior; GH deficiency; Growth hormone; Lupron; Neonate; Puberty; Rhesus monkey; Social status

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN DERIVATIVE; GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN; OCTREOTIDE; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASE; GROWTH RATE; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHESUS MONKEY; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH HORMONE; LEPTIN; LEUPROLIDE; MACACA MULATTA; OCTREOTIDE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TIME FACTORS;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 41549132758     PISSN: 00063363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1095/biolreprod.107.065953     Document Type: Article

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