The recent genetics of hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism - novel insights and new questions.

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The complex organization and regulation of the human hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis render it susceptible to dysfunction in the face of a variety of genetic insults, leading to different degrees of hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism (HH). Although the genetic basis of some HH was recognized more than 60 years ago the first specific pathogenic defect, in the KAL1 gene, was only identified within the last 20...

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