A human FSHB promoter SNP associated with low FSH levels in men impairs LHX3 binding and basal FSHB transcription

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3016-3021

  Benson, Courtney A ^a   Kurz, Troy L ^a   Thackray, Varykina G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BETA GALACTOSIDASE; DNA; FOLLITROPIN; FOLLITROPIN BETA SUBUNIT; GESTAGEN; LUCIFERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR LHX3;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARTICLE; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; ENZYME ASSAY; FOLLITROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FOLLITROPIN RELEASE; GAMETOGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; INFERTILITY; MALE; OVARY FOLLICLE DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SPERMATOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL LINE; DOWN-REGULATION; ELECTROPHORETIC MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, BETA SUBUNIT; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE, HUMAN; GONADOTROPHS; HUMANS; KINETICS; LIM-HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; MALE; MICE; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; MUTANT PROTEINS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; PROMOTER REGIONS, GENETIC; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RESPONSE ELEMENTS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84883138791     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1294     Document Type: Article

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