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laron syndrome 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 but the result of mutation of the human GHR gene on chromosome 5.


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(Growth Hormone Insensitivity Syndrome, Laron Dwarfism)



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