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Isolated growth hormone deficiency type II caused by a point mutation that alters both splice site strength and splicing enhancer function.
Clinical genetics - 1 Dec 2008
Shariat N, Holladay C D, Cleary R K, Phillips J A, Patton J G
Abstract excerpt
A heterozygous single base mutation in the human growth hormone (GH) gene (GH-1) was identified in a family presenting with isolated GH deficiency type II (IGHD II). Affected individuals have a guanine to adenine transition at the first nucleotide of exon 3 (E3+1 G-->A) that results in exon skipping and production of a dominant-negative 17.5-kDa isoform. We show that the mechanistic basis for exon skipping is due...
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