Familial growth hormone deficiency resul
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Braga, Suzanne ;Phillips, John A. ;Joss, Etienne ;Schwarz, Hanspeter ;Zuppinger,
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Article
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1986
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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We report on two sibs with familial isolated growth hormone deficiency (IGHD) resulting from homozygosity for a 7.6 kb deletion within the growth hormone gene cluster. The deletion not only affects the structural gene for growth hormone (GH-N) but also alters sequences adjacent to the chorionic soma