Differential impact of genetic loci on age at thelarche and menarche in healthy girls

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 228-234

  Busch, Alexander S ^a   Hagen, Casper P ^a   Assens, Maria ^a   Main, Katharina M ^a   Almstrup, Kristian ^a   Juul, Anders ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALLELE; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BREAST DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DENMARK; FEMALE; FSHB GENE; FSHR GENE; GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INHA GENE; LIN28B GENE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENARCHE; MKRN3 GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TMEM38B GENE; ZNF483 GENE; ADOLESCENT; FOLLOW UP; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; PUBERTY;

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; BIOMARKERS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; PROGNOSIS; PUBERTY;

EID: 85046151092     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2017-01860     Document Type: Article

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