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A mutational hot spot in the Prop-1 gene in Russian children with combined pituitary hormone deficiency.
Pituitary - 1 Apr 1998
Fofanova O V, Takamura N, Kinoshita E, Parks J S, Brown M R, Peterkova V A, Evgrafov O V, Goncharov N P, Bulatov A A, Dedov I I, Yamashita S
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Combined pituitary hormone deficiency (CPHD), including growth hormone (GH), prolactin (Prl) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) in children is now considered a heterogeneous syndrome. Recent findings on expression of mouse pituitary-specific homeodomain factors demonstrate dependence of adenopituitary ontogeny on interactive expression of these factors, suggesting their involvement in etiology of CPHD. Prophet...
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