The exon 3 deleted growth hormone receptor gene is associated with small birth size and early pubertal onset in healthy boys

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 2819-2826

  Sørensen, Kaspar ^a   Aksglaede, Lise ^a   Petersen, Jørgen Holm ^a,b   Leffers, Henrik ^a   Juul, Anders ^a  

^a Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 3; TESTOSTERONE; DNA; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH LENGTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE DELETION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAMETERS CONCERNING THE FETUS, NEWBORN AND PREGNANCY; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; AGING; BLOOD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; BIRTH WEIGHT; CHILD; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DNA; EXONS; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; GENE DELETION; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR BINDING PROTEIN 3; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954463958     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2009-2484     Document Type: Article

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