Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5901828 Growth Hormone & IGF Research 2011 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
The clinical data of the patient combined with the laboratory data support the diagnosis of partial IGHD type II. Since the GH deficiency was not total, additional binding and signaling studies were performed, which revealed that the GH-P59L variant displays some of the common features of bioinactive GH syndrome. Taken together, in this study we report a patient suffering from the combination of two growth disorders (alteration of secretion as well as bioactivity) caused by a GH-1 gene alteration highlighting the necessity of functional analysis of any GH variant, despite the presence of obvious clinical features of IGHD type II.
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