Idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in a mother and her monozygotic twins born after a single embryo transfer

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 93, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2074.e13-2074.e16

  Laitinen, Eeva Maria ^a,b   Tommiska, Johanna ^a,b   Dunkel, Leo ^c   Sankilampi, Ulla ^c   Vaaralahti, Kirsi ^a   Raivio, Taneli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

FGFR1; hypogonadotropic hypogonadism; microphallus; monozygotic twins

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GENOMIC DNA; TYROSINE KINASE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CRYPTORCHISM; EMBRYO; EMBRYO TRANSFER; EXON; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; HETEROZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY THERAPY; INTRON; LEUKOCYTE; MALE; MALE INFERTILITY; MICROPENIS; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MOTHER; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; THAWING;

EID: 77949916263     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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