Sex in the 90s: SRY and the switch to the male pathway

Annual Review of Physiology

Volumn 60, Issue , 1998, Pages 497-523

  Capel, Blanche ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

DAX1; HMG proteins; Mammalian sex determination; SOX9; Testis organogenesis

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN SRY; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CELL MIGRATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0031892938     PISSN: 00664278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physiol.60.1.497     Document Type: Review

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