Androgen receptor point mutations as the underlying molecular defect in 2 patients with androgen insensitivity syndrome

Journal of Urology

Volumn 158, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1553-1556

  Radmayr, Christian ^a   Culig, Zoran ^a   Glatzl, Josef ^a   Neuschmid Kaspar, Felizia ^a   Bartsch, Georg ^a   Klocker, Helmut ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Androgen; Mutation; Pseudohermaphroditism; Receptors

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; ANDROSTANOLONE; MUTANT PROTEIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE;

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE RECEPTOR INTERACTION; HORMONE RESPONSIVE ELEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; NEWBORN; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SKIN FIBROBLAST; TRANSACTIVATION; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0030864804     PISSN: 00225347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5347(01)64279-4     Document Type: Article

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