Molecular analysis of 5α-reductase type 2 gene in eight unrelated egyptian children with suspected 5α-reductase deficiency: Prevalence of the G34R mutation

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 627-631

  Mazen, Inas ^a   Gad, Yehia Z ^a   Hafez, Mona ^b   Sultan, Charles ^c   Lumbroso, Serge ^c  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

^b CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; TESTOSTERONE; CHOLESTENONE 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSANGUINEOUS MARRIAGE; CONSANGUINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; EXON; FEMALE; FEMININITY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HUMAN; INFANT; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MASCULINITY; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROVOCATION TEST; REARING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HOMOZYGOTE; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; PUBERTY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHOLESTENONE 5 ALPHA-REDUCTASE; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; FEMALE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MUTATION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PSEUDOHERMAPHRODITISM; PUBERTY; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0038476612     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01763.x     Document Type: Article

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