Spontaneous growth hormone secretory characteristics in children with partial growth hormone insensitivity

objective To investigate the characteristics of spontaneous GH secretion in four male children with short stature due to partial GH insensitivity. Their molecular defect consists of inclusion of a mutant intronic pseudoexon in the region of the GH receptor involved in homodimerization.

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