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Associations between menarche-related genetic variants and pubertal growth in male and female adolescents.
The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine - 1 Jan 2015
Tu Wanzhu, Wagner Erin K, Eckert George J, Yu Zhangsheng, Hannon Tamara, Pratt J Howard, He Chunyan
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PURPOSE: Previous studies have identified novel genetic variants associated with age at menarche in females of European descent. The pubertal growth effects of these variants have not been carefully evaluated in non-European descent groups. We aimed to examine the effects of 31 newly identified menarche-related single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) on growth outcomes in African-American (AA) and...
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