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Classical phenotype of Laron syndrome in a girl with a heterozygous mutation and heterozygous polymorphism of the growth hormone receptor gene.
Journal of pediatric endocrinology & metabolism : JPEM - 1 Mar 2004
Shevah Orit, Galli-Tsinopoulou Assimina, Rubinstein Menachem, Nousia-Arvanitakis Sanda, Laron Zvi
Abstract excerpt
We describe here a 19 month-old girl with classical Laron syndrome (LS). Molecular analysis of the GH receptor gene in the patient and her parents was performed. The patient was found to be heterozygous for a mutation in exon 4 (R43X) and heterozygous for a polymorphism in exon 6 (Gly168Gly). Her mother was also heterozygous for R43X but homozygous for the polymorphism. In the father, a heterozygous polymorphism...
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