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ey0019.6-12 | Gender Incongruence: Growth and fertility in transgender girls | ESPEYB19

6.12. Trans girls grow tall: adult height is unaffected by GnRH analogue and estradiol treatment

LS Boogers , CM Wiepjes , DT Klink , I Hellinga , Trotsenburg ASP van , Heijer M den , SE Hannema

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022 Jun 6:dgac349. PMID: 35666195, doi: 10.1210/clinem/dgac349. Brief Summary: This paper reports the adult height of 161 transgender girls (registered male at birth) from the Amsterdam Cohort of Gender Dysphoria. It finds no difference in adult height between use of standard and high estrogen doses. There is currently very little information on...

ey0016.3-10 | New Genes | ESPEYB16

3.10. Mutations in IRS4 are associated with central hypothyroidism

CA Heinen , EM de Vries , M Alders , H Bikker , N Zwaveling-Soonawala , Akker ELT van den , B Bakker , G Hoorweg-Nijman , F Roelfsema , RC Hennekam , A Boelen , Trotsenburg ASP van , E Fliers

To read the full abstract: J Med Genet. 2018;55:693–700.This genetic study identified, by whole exome sequencing, mutations in the insulin receptor substrate 4 gene (IRS4) in 5 families with isolated central congenital hypothyroidism. Thus, the authors add a fifth genetic cause of isolated congenital hypothyroidism to the previously known genes: TSHB, TRHR, IGSF1, ...