Releasing the brake on puberty

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 368, Issue 26, 2013, Pages 2513-2515

  Hughes, Ieuan A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR 54; GONADORELIN; KISSPEPTIN; LEPTIN; MAKORIN RING FINGER PROTEIN 3; NEUROKININ B; NEUROTRANSMITTER; RING FINGER PROTEIN; RNA; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; CYSTIC FIBROSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME IMPRINTING; GROWTH; HEAD INJURY; HEREDITY; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOGONADOTROPIC HYPOGONADISM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; MALNUTRITION; MENARCHE; MKRN3 GENE; NONHUMAN; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHENOTYPE; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL IRRADIATION;

EID: 84879337289     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMe1306743     Document Type: Editorial

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