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Luteinizing hormone receptor mutations in disorders of sexual development and cancer.
Frontiers in bioscience : a journal and virtual library - 1 Mar 2000
Wu S M, Leschek E W, Rennert O M, Chan W Y
Abstract excerpt
Human male sexual development is regulated by chorionic gonadotropin (CG) and luteinizing hormone (LH). Aberrant sexual development caused by both activating and inactivating mutations of the human luteinizing hormone receptor (LHR) have been described. All known activating mutations of the LHR are missense mutations caused by single base substitution. The most common activating mutation is the replacement of...
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