A homozygous R262Q mutation in the gonadotropin-releasing hormone receptor presenting as reversal of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and late-onset hypogonadism

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 316-317

  Tommiska, Johanna ^a,b   Jørgensen, Niels ^c   Christiansen, Peter ^c   Juul, Anders ^c   Raivio, Taneli ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI AND HELSINKI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 8; FOLLITROPIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; INHIBIN B; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TESTOSTERONE; THYROTROPIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; AMENORRHEA; BODY HEIGHT; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DELAYED PUBERTY; ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLOW UP; GENE MUTATION; HEMATOCRIT; HOMOZYGOSITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LETTER; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUTEINIZING HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SPERMATOZOON COUNT; TESTIS SIZE; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL;

HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; MIDDLE AGED; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, LHRH;

EID: 84872114535     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2012.04493.x     Document Type: Letter

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