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Genetic analysis of the human Insulin-like 3 gene: absence of mutations in a Greek paediatric cohort with testicular maldescent.
Andrologia - 1 Jan 2014
Mamoulakis C, Georgiou I, Dimitriadis F, Tsounapi P, Giannakis I, Chatzikyriakidou A, Antypas S, Sofras F, Takenaka A, Sofikitis N
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This study investigated the hypothesis that genetic alterations of the human insulin-like 3 (INSL3) gene are associated with testicular maldescent (TMD). Genomic DNA was extracted and amplified from peripheral blood samples of 170 unrelated children with all possible phenotypical expressions of TMD and 50 volunteers with normal external genitalia from the general paediatric population (controls). PCR-single...
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