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Height outcome of the recombinant human growth hormone treatment in patients with SHOX gene haploinsufficiency: a meta-analysis.
Pharmacogenomics - 1 Apr 2013
Massart Francesco, Bizzi Martina, Baggiani Angelo, Miccoli Mario
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BACKGROUND: Patients with mutations or deletions of the SHOX gene present variable growth impairment, with or without mesomelic skeletal dysplasia. If untreated, short patients with SHOX haplodeficiency (SHOXD) remain short into adulthood. Although recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) treatment improves short-term linear growth, there are episodic data on the final height of treated SHOXD subjects. PATIENTS &...
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