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Clinical Examples of Disturbed IGF Signaling: Intrauterine and Postnatal Growth Retardation due to Mutations of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Receptor (IGF-IR) Gene

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  1. Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Leipzig, Oststr. 21–25, D-04317, Leipzig, Germany

    W. Kiess (MD), E. Keller, A. Schneider, K. Raile, J. Klammt, B. Seidel, A. Garten & R. Pfäffle

  2. Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Chemistry, and Molecular Diagnostics Medical Faculty, University of Leipzig, Germany

    J. Kratzsch

  3. Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Munich, Germany

    H. Schmidt

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Supported by grants from the German Endocrine Society (to A.S.), and IZKF, Leipzig, Germany (projects B11, B15 and B1 to W.K. and J.K.) through BMBF, Bonn, Germany.

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Kiess, W., Kratzsch, J., Keller, E. et al. Clinical Examples of Disturbed IGF Signaling: Intrauterine and Postnatal Growth Retardation due to Mutations of the Insulin-Like Growth Factor I Receptor (IGF-IR) Gene. Rev Endocr Metab Disord 6, 183–187 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11154-005-3049-5

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