Horm Metab Res 2017; 49(07): 558-560
DOI: 10.1055/s-0043-104385
Letter to the Editor
© Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York

Parathyroid Hormone Resistance and Bilateral Macronodular Adrenocortical Disease: Does Partial Loss of Methylation at the GNAS Exon 1 Differentially Methylated Region (DMR) Play a Role?

Christian A. Koch
1   Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA
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Publication History

received 07 February 2017

accepted 14 February 2017

Publication Date:
10 April 2017 (online)

 
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