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Mutational analysis of TAC3 and TACR3 genes in patients with idiopathic central pubertal disorders.
Arquivos brasileiros de endocrinologia e metabologia - 1 Dec 2012
Tusset Cintia, Noel Sekoni D, Trarbach Ericka B, Silveira Letícia F G, Jorge Alexander A L, Brito Vinicius N, Cukier Priscila, Seminara Stephanie B, Mendonça Berenice B de, Kaiser Ursula B, Latronico Ana Claudia
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the presence of variants in the TAC3 and TACR3 genes, which encode NKB and its receptor (NK3R), respectively, in a large cohort of patients with idiopathic central pubertal disorders. SUBJECTS AND METHODS: Two hundred and thirty seven patients were studied: 114 with central precocious puberty (CPP), 73 with normosmic isolated hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (IHH), and 50 with...
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