Compound heterozygous deletion of the prop-1 gene in children with combined pituitary hormone deficiency

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 2601-2604

  Fofanova, O ^a   Takamura, N ^c   Kinoshita, E ^c   Parks, J S ^d   Brown, M R ^d   Peterkova, V A ^a   Evgrafov, O V ^b   Goncharov, N P ^a   Bulatov, A A ^e   Dedov, I I ^a   Yamashita, S ^c  

^a N N BLOKHIN NATIONAL MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTER OF ONCOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^b RESEARCH CENTRE FOR MEDICAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; PROLACTIN; THYROTROPIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FEMALE; FRAMESHIFT MUTATION; GENE DELETION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HUMAN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 7844222462     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.83.7.5094     Document Type: Article

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