The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism Vol. 85, No. 12 4921
Copyright © 2000 by The Endocrine Society
Authors Response: Isolated Familial Somatotropinomas: Does the Disease Map to 11q13 or to 2p16?
Monica R. Gadelha,
Klaus Rhode,
Rhonda D. Kineman and
Lawrence A. Frohman
Department of Medicine (M.R.G., R.D.K., L.A.F.), University of Illinois
at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60612; Division of Endocrinology
(M.R.G.), Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Federal
University of Rio De Janeiro, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil 21919-590; and
Department of Bioinformatics (K.R.), Max Delbrück Center for
Molecular Medicine, d-13092 Berlin, Germany
{hd2}To the editor:
Received September 13, 2000.
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