[One of four STAT proteins (STAT1, -3, -5a and -5b) activated by the GH-GHR system, the critical importance of STAT5b in IGF-I production became evident with the identification of homozygous, autosomal recessive STAT5b mutations in patients who presented with severe postnatal growth failure, growth hormone insensitivity syndrome (GHIS) and marked IGF-I deficiency.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE