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SUBMITTER: White RB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC18209 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
White R B RB Eisen J A JA Kasten T L TL Fernald R D RD
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980101 1
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) is a decapeptide widely known for its role in regulating reproduction by serving as a signal from the hypothalamus to pituitary gonadotropes. In addition to hypothalamic GnRH (GnRH-I), a second GnRH form (pGln-His-Trp-Ser-His-Gly-Trp-Tyr-Pro-Gly; GnRH-II) with unknown function has been localized to the midbrain of many vertebrates. We show here that a gene encoding GnRH-II is expressed in humans and is located on chromosome 20p13, distinct from the GnRH-I ge ...[more]