Puberty, Precocious
"Puberty, Precocious" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Development of SEXUAL MATURATION in boys and girls at a chronological age that is 2.5 standard deviations below the mean age at onset of PUBERTY in the population. This early maturation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis results in sexual precocity, elevated serum levels of GONADOTROPINS and GONADAL STEROID HORMONES such as ESTRADIOL and TESTOSTERONE.
| Descriptor ID |
D011629
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C19.391.693
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Puberty, Precocious" by people in Profiles over the past ten years.
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Raisingani M, Contreras MF, Prasad K, Pappas JG, Kluge ML, Shah B, David R. Unusual phenotype of congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) with a novel mutation of the CYP21A2 gene. J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2016 Jul 01; 29(7):867-71.