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Short stature in carriers of recessive mutation causing familial isolated growth hormone deficiency.
American journal of medical genetics - 31 Jan 2000
Leiberman E, Pesler D, Parvari R, Elbedour K, Abdul-Latif H, Brown M R, Parks J S, Carmi R
Abstract excerpt
Isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) IB is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by a good response to exogenous growth hormone (GH) treatment without development of anti-GH antibodies. Patients with IGHD IB were found to be compound heterozygotes for deletion and frameshift mutations as well as homozygotes for splicing mutations in the GH-1 gene. Recently, a novel splicing mutation in the GH-1 gene...
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