Can Kallmann syndrome be occasionally diagnosed during childhood? Genetic diagnosis in a child with associated renal agenesis and mirror movements

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 521-523

  Georgopoulos, Neoklis A ^a   Koika, Vasiliki ^a   Varnavas, Petros ^a   Efthymiadou, Alexandra ^a   Marioli, Dimitra J ^a   Mantagos, Stefanos ^a   Chrysis, Dionysios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOME PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; KALLMANN SYNDROME PROTEIN; PROTEIN PROKR2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANOSMIA; ARCHED PALATE; ATROPHY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXON; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KIDNEY AGENESIS; LETTER; MALE; MIRROR MOVEMENT; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OLFACTORY GYRI ATROPHY; PALATE DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; X CHROMOSOME;

CHILD; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; KALLMANN SYNDROME; KIDNEY; MALE; MOVEMENT;

EID: 69749097151     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2008.24     Document Type: Letter

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