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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 58, 915-918, Copyright © 1984 by Endocrine Society

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Plasma sex hormone-binding globulin levels decrease during the second decade of life irrespective of pubertal status

SK Cunningham, T Loughlin, M Culliton and TJ McKenna

The plasma concentrations of sex hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) and sex steroids determine the nonprotein bound or free steroid fraction, which probably exerts the biological activity of sex steroids. Androgens lower and estrogens raise SHBG levels. The established pubertal fall in SHBG levels occurring in men has been attributed to rising androgen levels. In this study we examined the relationship between plasma SHBG and androgens in four men with untreated isolated gonadotropin deficiency and in two siblings with complete androgen insensitivity. In patients with untreated isolated gonadotropin deficiency there was a highly significant inverse correlation between SHBG levels and age (r = -0.9, P less than 0.001), although testosterone levels did not rise and there was no relationship between SHBG levels and testosterone, androstenedione, or dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate. Two 46 XY siblings, who were phenotypic females, with complete androgen insensitivity had a marked decline in SHBG levels from 28.0 ng/ml at 9 yr to 17.1 ng/ml at 13 yr and from 15.2 ng/ml at 12 yr to 8.1 ng/ml at 16 yr, respectively. These observations indicate that the fall in SHBG levels during the second decade of life occurs irrespective of androgen activity and is under the control of other unidentified influences.


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