Sex determination: Lessons from families and embryos

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 207-215

  Ostrer, H ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; FAMILY; FEMALE; FETUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC SCREENING; GONAD; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PEDIGREE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONADS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PEDIGREE; RECEPTORS, RETINOIC ACID; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS); SEX-DETERMINING REGION Y PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0035044142     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0004.2001.590401.x     Document Type: Review

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