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Endocrine System Diseases > Dwarfism > Laron Syndrome
Congenital, Hereditary, and Neonatal Diseases and Abnormalities > Genetic Diseases, Inborn > Dwarfism > Laron Syndrome
Musculoskeletal Diseases > Bone Diseases > Bone Diseases, Developmental > Dwarfism > Laron Syndrome

Preferred term

Laron Syndrome  

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Entry terms

  • Dwarfism II, Pituitary
  • Dwarfism IIs, Pituitary
  • Dwarfism, Laron
  • GH Resistance, Primary
  • Growth Hormone Insensitivity Syndrome
  • Growth Hormone Receptor Defect
  • Growth Hormone Receptor Deficiency
  • Laron Dwarfism
  • Laron Type Dwarfism I
  • Pituitary Dwarfism II
  • Pituitary Dwarfism IIs
  • Primary GH Resistance
  • Primary Growth Hormone Resistance
  • Severe GH Insensitivity

Scope note

  • An autosomal recessive disorder characterized by short stature, defective GROWTH HORMONE RECEPTOR, and failure to generate INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I by GROWTH HORMONE. Laron syndrome is not a form of primary pituitary dwarfism (GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY DWARFISM) but the result of mutation of the human GHR gene on chromosome 5.

History note

  • 2005

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D046150

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