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Nasal embryonic LHRH factor (NELF) mutations in patients with normosmic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and Kallmann syndrome.
Fertility and sterility - 1 Apr 2011
Xu Ning, Kim Hyung-Goo, Bhagavath Balasubramanian, Cho Sung-Gyu, Lee Jae Ho, Ha Kyungsoo, Meliciani Irene, Wenzel Wolfgang, Podolsky Robert H, Chorich Lynn P, Stackhouse Kathryn A, Grove Anna M H, Odom Lawrence N, Ozata Metin, Bick David P, Sherins Richard J, Kim Soo-Hyun, Cameron Richard S, Layman Lawrence C
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OBJECTIVE: To determine if mutations in NELF, a gene isolated from migratory GnRH neurons, cause normosmic idiopathic hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH) and Kallmann syndrome (KS). DESIGN: Molecular analysis correlated with phenotype. SETTING: Academic medical center. PATIENT(S): A total of 168 IHH/KS patients as well as unrelated control subjects were studied for NELF mutations. INTERVENTION(S): NELF coding...
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