Table of Contents

Letter from the Editors ....  59

REVIEW

Glucocorticoid Receptor Isoforms Alpha and Beta: Potential Physiological and Pathological Importance

A. Vottero and G.P. Chrousos, USA ................  61

ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS

NeuroD/Beta2 Polymorphism is Not Associated with Type 1 Diabetes in Chinese, Korean, or Caucasian Populations

M.P. Marron, D.I. Hopkins, Y.S. Park and J.-X. She, USA and Korea ..............  73

CYP11B1 Intragenic Polymorphisms Give Evidence for a Different Q356X Allele in an African-Brazilian Patient

C.E. De Carvalho, J.Y. Penachioni, M. Castro, A.C. Moreira and M.P. De Mello, Brazil . ........ 79

Mutations in the CFTR Gene are Not a Common Finding in Patients with Diabetes

R. Gill-Randall, L. Evans and J.C. Alcolado, UK  ............87

A Novel Mutation (W718S) in the Steroid-Binding Domain of the Androgen Receptor Gene in a Boy with Ambiguous Genitalia and Hypergonadotrophic Hypogonadism

M.L. Ribeiro, D.F. Cabral, A.T. Maciel-Guerra, G. Guerra Jr. and C. Hackel, Brazil ..........  91

Growth Hormone Insensitivity (Laron Syndrome) in a Russian Girl of Slavic Origin Caused by a Common Mutation of the GH Receptor Gene

A.N. Tiulpakov, I.V. Orlovsky, N.U. Kalintchenko, D.A. Lonina, G.S. Kalesnikova, V.A. Peterkova, R. Bjarnason, L. Baumbach and P.M. Rubtsov, Russia, Sweden and USA ........  95

Homozygous Transthyretin Leu64: A Very Rare Transthyretin Mutation Associated With Amyloidosis but Not With Euthyroid Hyperthyroxinemia

S. Benvenga, L. Bartolone, R. Musolino, R. Melluso, A. Toscano, G. Vita and F. Trimarchi, Italy ...............  101

FORUM AND CORRESPONDENCE ..............  105

BOOK REVIEWS ....  107

CALENDAR  .............111

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