Growth hormone receptor deficiency in South America: colonial history, molecular biology, and growth and metabolic insights

J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Dec;21(12):1107-9. doi: 10.1515/jpem.2008.21.12.1107.
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Publication types

  • Comment
  • Historical Article

MeSH terms

  • Body Height / genetics
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / epidemiology
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / ethnology
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / genetics
  • Emigration and Immigration
  • History, 16th Century
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Insulin Resistance / ethnology
  • Insulin Resistance / genetics
  • Jews
  • Laron Syndrome / ethnology
  • Laron Syndrome / genetics*
  • Laron Syndrome / history*
  • Mutation / genetics
  • Obesity / epidemiology
  • Obesity / ethnology
  • Obesity / genetics
  • Receptors, Somatotropin / deficiency*
  • Receptors, Somatotropin / genetics
  • South America

Substances

  • Receptors, Somatotropin