. . . . . . . "[This study indicates that in growing and adult African Pygmies showing no clinical nor biochemical signs of nutritional deficiency, serum IGF-I and IGFBP-3 (hence IGF-I bioavailability to its receptors) are essentially normal, and that low circulating levels of IGF-I in Pygmies reside in differential exposure and/or responsiveness to environmental challenge (e.g. infections) rather than in an inherited defect in the systemic growth-hormone (GH)-IGF-I axis.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine."@en . . . . . "2017-02-19"^^ . . "Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature."@en . "DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE"@en . "2017-10-17T13:12:58+02:00"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . "v5.0.0.0" . "v5.0.0" .