Scientists from Monash University have uncovered a new understanding of how male puberty begins. The key to their findings lies with a protein known as SMAD3 and the rate at which it is produced. Boys with low levels of SMAD3 protein mature faster than the norm, while an inability to create SMAD3 results in abnormal responses to testosterone and delayed puberty.
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