An encore for the repeats: New insights into an old genetic variant

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 764-767

  Krausz, Csilla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; PHOSPHATIDYLINOSITOL 3 KINASE; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROTEIN KINASE B; TESTOSTERONE;

AR GENE; CAG REPEAT; CRYPTORCHISM; EDITORIAL; EXON; GENE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; KENNEDY DISEASE; MALE INFERTILITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPERMATOGENESIS; TRANSACTIVATION; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

CRYPTORCHIDISM; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEATS;

EID: 84858025251     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2012-1130     Document Type: Editorial

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