Clinical, biochemical, and molecular investigations of a genetic isolate of growth hormone insensitivity (Laron's syndrome)

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 444-451

  Baumbach, L ^a   Schiavi, A ^a   Bartlett, R ^a   Perera, E ^a   Day, J ^b   Brown, M R ^c   Stein, S ^a   Eidson, M ^a   Parks, J S ^c   Cleveland, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Research Atlantica Inc   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CODON; DRUG RECEPTOR BINDING; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE ISOLATION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE RESISTANCE; HUMAN; LARON SYNDROME; LIGAND BINDING; LIVER BIOPSY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT STATURE; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DRUG RESISTANCE; FEMALE; GENES; HUMAN GROWTH HORMONE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; METABOLISM, INBORN ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 8044231951     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.82.2.444     Document Type: Article

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