Article
Activating mutations of the stimulatory G protein in the McCune-Albright syndrome.
The New England journal of medicine - 12 Dec 1991
Weinstein L S, Shenker A, Gejman P V, Merino M J, Friedman E, Spiegel A M
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: The McCune-Albright syndrome is a sporadic disease characterized by polyostotic fibrous dysplasia, café au lait spots, sexual precocity, and hyperfunction of multiple endocrine glands. These manifestations may be explained by a somatic mutation in affected tissues that results in activation of the signal-transduction pathway generating cyclic AMP (cAMP). We analyzed DNA from tissues of patients with...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Base Sequence
- Child, Preschool
- Exons
- Female
- Fibrous Dysplasia, Polyostotic
- GTP-Binding Proteins
- Gene Amplification
- Gene Expression Regulation
- Humans
- Molecular Sequence Data
