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Congenital Adrenal Hypoplasia: Clinical Spectrum, Experience with Hormonal Diagnosis, and Report on New Point Mutations of the DAX-1 Gene
1 Aug 1998
Abstract excerpt
X-linked congenital adrenal hypoplasia (AHC) is a rare developmental disorder of the human adrenal cortex and is caused by deletion or mutation of the DAX-1 gene, a recently discovered member of the nuclear hormone receptor superfamily. Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is frequently associated with AHC. AHC occurs as part of a contiguous gene syndrome together with glycerol kinase deficiency (GKD) and Duchenne's...
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