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A missense mutation in MKRN3 in a Danish girl with central precocious puberty and her brother with early puberty.
Pediatric research - 1 Dec 2015
Känsäkoski Johanna, Raivio Taneli, Juul Anders, Tommiska Johanna
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BACKGROUND: Idiopathic central precocious puberty (ICPP) results from the premature reactivation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis leading to development of secondary sexual characteristics prior to 8 y in girls or 9 y in boys. Since the initial discovery of mutations in the maternally imprinted MKRN3 gene in 2013, several case reports have described mutations in this gene in ICPP patients from different...
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