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Effects of heterozygosity for the E180 splice mutation causing growth hormone receptor deficiency in Ecuador on IGF-I, IGFBP-3, and stature.
Growth hormone & IGF research : official journal of the Growth Hormone Research Society and the International IGF Research Society - 1 Jun 2007
Guevara-Aguirre Jaime, Rosenbloom Arlan L, Guevara-Aguirre Marco, Yariz Kemal, Saavedra Jeanette, Baumbach Lisa, Shuster Jonathan
Abstract excerpt
CONTEXT & OBJECTIVE: The Ecuadorian GH receptor deficiency (GHRD)/Laron syndrome population is the only large cohort with a single GHR mutation (E180 splice), permitting identification of numerous carrier and noncarrier first-degree relatives, to ascertain effects of heterozygosity on GH-dependent IGF-I and IGFBP-3 concentrations and on growth. DESIGN: First-degree relatives (n=212) of GHRD patients had specimens...
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