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Volume 15 | ESPEYB15 | Next issue

Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2018

4 Growth and Growth Factors

New therapeutic options

ey0015.4-6 | New therapeutic options | ESPEYB15

4.6 Final adult height in long-term growth hormone-treated achondroplasia patients

D Harada , N Namba , Y Hanioka , K Ueyama , N Sakamoto , Y Nakano , M Izui , Y Nagamatsu , H Kashiwagi , M Yamamuro , Y Ishiura , A Ogitani , Y Seino

To read the full abstract: Eur J Pediatr 2017; 176:873-879Achondroplasia (ACH) is the most common genetic form of disproportionate short stature, occurring in 1:15,000 –1:40,000 live births [28]. Most patients have a gain of function mutation in the transmembrane domain of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3), leading to prolonged intracellular MAPK signalin...