Routine use of magnetic resonance imaging for girls with central precocious puberty is the best way to identify occult central nervous system lesions, say Turkish researchers.
Longitudinal study findings support a relationship between body mass index and the timing of puberty in boys, with a link found between obesity and precocious gonadarche.
Familial central precocious puberty caused by mutations in the makorin RING finger protein 3 gene is phenotypically similar to idiopathic forms, although it can vary with the severity of the mutation, a study shows.
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The incidences of central precocious puberty and normal variant puberty have risen over the past 20 years, in line with overall population trends for earlier puberty in both girls and boys, say researchers.
Primary ovarian insufficiency affects the majority of girls with autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy, in most cases occurring before they have attained their final adult height, show data from a national cohort.
Whole-gene deletion of MKRN3 can cause central precocious puberty without any features of Prader–Willi syndrome, researchers report.
Researchers confirm that pubertal timing in girls is most strongly influenced by that of their mothers, whereas for boys their fathers have the stronger influence.
Levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate at the age of 7 years may determine how soon healthy girls progress to thelarche, pubarche and menarche, say researchers.
Research suggests that a single challenge with the neuropeptide kisspeptin can distinguish between children with pubertal delay who will or will not require long-term gonadotropin-releasing hormone therapy.
