The role of androgens in fetal growth: Observational study in two genetic models of disordered androgen signalling

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Miles, Harriet L ^a   Gidlöf, Sebastian ^b   Nordenström, Anna ^b   Ong, Ken K ^a,c   Hughes, Ieuan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^c ADDENBROOKE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN;

ANDROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONGENITAL ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; FETUS GROWTH; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC MODEL; HUMAN; INFANT; KARYOTYPING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ADRENAL HYPERPLASIA, CONGENITAL; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ANDROGENS; BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS, 46,XY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 78349234229     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.173575     Document Type: Article

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