The Y-chromosomal genes SRY and ZFY are transcribed in adult human brain

Neurogenetics

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 281-288

  Mayer, Anette ^a   Lahr, Georgia ^a   Swaab, Dick F ^b   Pilgrim, Christof ^a   Reisert, Ingrid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cortex; Hypothalamus; Sexual differentiation; SRY; ZFY

Indexed keywords

DNA BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; SRY PROTEIN, HUMAN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; ZFY PROTEIN, HUMAN; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN, X LINKED; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN, X-LINKED;

AGED; ARTICLE; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATOR GENE; RESTRICTION MAPPING; TEMPORAL LOBE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENES, REGULATOR; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TEMPORAL LOBE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032129443     PISSN: 13646745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100480050042     Document Type: Article

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