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Clinical manifestations of genetic defects affecting gonadotrophins and their receptors.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Dec 1996
Conway G S
Abstract excerpt
Raised activity of the LH axis caused by activating mutations of LH receptor gene presents with precocious puberty in boys, analogous to the presentation of LH secreting pituitary adenomas (Faggiano et al., 1983; Ambrosi et al., 1990). LH "hyperactivity' in females appears to have no effect. Hyperactivity of the FSH axis caused by activating mutations of the FSH receptor gene might parallel the presentation of...
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