Human sex determination

Journal of Experimental Zoology

Volumn 281, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 501-505

  Sinclair, Andrew H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CELL RECEPTOR; DAX-1 PROTEIN; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUSHI TARAZU PROTEIN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; RETINOIC ACID RECEPTOR; STEROIDOGENIC FACTOR 1; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; WT1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; GENDER AND SEX; GENETICS; GONAD; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; FUSHI TARAZU TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GONADS; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECEPTORS, CYTOPLASMIC AND NUCLEAR; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX REVERSAL, GONADAL; SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; WT1 PROTEINS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032145029     PISSN: 0022104X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-010X(19980801)281:5<501::AID-JEZ15>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Conference Paper

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