A normative model of serum inhibin B in young males
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14/04/2016Keywords
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Abstract
Inhibin B has been identified as a potential marker of Sertoli cell function in males. The aim of this study is to produce a normative model of serum inhibin B in males from birth to seventeen years. We used a well-defined search strategy to identify studies containing data that can contribute to a larger approximation of the healthy population. We combined data from four published studies (n = 709) and derived an internally validated model with high goodness-of-fit and normally distributed residuals. Our results show that inhibin B increases following birth to a post-natal peak of 270 pg/mL (IQR 210–335 pg/mL) and then decreases during childhood followed by a rise at around 8 years, peaking at a mean 305 pg/mL (IQR 240–445 pg/mL) at around age 17. Following this peak there is a slow decline to the standard mature adult normal range of 170 pg/mL (IQR 125–215 pg/mL). This normative model suggests that 35% of the variation in Inhibin B levels in young males is due to age alone, provides an age-specific reference range for inhibin B in the young healthy male population, and will be a powerful tool in evaluating the potential of inhibin B as a marker of Sertoli cell function in pre-pubertal boys.
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Kelsey , T W , Miles , A , Mitchell , R T , Anderson , R & Wallace , W H B 2016 , ' A normative model of serum inhibin B in young males ' , PLoS One , vol. 11 , no. 4 , e0153843 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0153843
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PLoS One
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Peer reviewed
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1932-6203Type
Journal article
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© 2016 Kelsey et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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RTM is supported by a Wellcome Trust Intermediate Clinical Fellowship (Grant No: 098522).Collections
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