[Three cases of complete ALS deficiency have been recently reported in short-stature patients with very low circulating IGF-I and IGFBP-3 levels who presented with homozygous or compound heterozygous mutations in the ALS encoding gene (IGFALS; 16p13.3), thus supporting a role for ALS in the regulation of the bioavailability of IGFs during postnatal growth.]. 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