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Hypothalamic abnormalities: Growth failure due to defects of the GHRH receptor.
Growth hormone & IGF research : official journal of the Growth Hormone Research Society and the International IGF Research Society - 1 Feb 2018
Aguiar-Oliveira Manuel H, Davalos Caridad, Campos Viviane C, Oliveira Neto Luiz A, Marinho Cindi G, Oliveira Carla R P
Abstract excerpt
Several acquired or congenital hypothalamic abnormalities may cause growth failure (GF). We described two of these congenital abnormalities. First, a case of CHARGE syndrome, an epigenetic disorder mostly caused by heterozygous mutations in the gene encoding CHD7, a chromatin remodeling protein, causing several malformations, some life-threatening, with additional secondary hypothalamus-hypophyseal dysfunction,...
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