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ey0016.4-7 | New Perspectives | ESPEYB16

4.7. Idiopathic short stature and growth hormone sensitivity in prepubertal children

JGB Derraik , HL Miles , V Chiavaroli , PL Hofman , WS Cutfield

To read the full abstract: Clin Endocrinol. 2019;91:110–117.Idiopathic short stature (ISS) refers to a heterogeneous population of children with a height more than 2 SDS below the mean for age, sex, and population, in presence of normal birth size and body proportions, and without evidence of any identifiable cause. The use of next generation sequencing (NGS) has shown that a high p...