Sex steroid-related genes and male-to-female transsexualism

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 657-664

  Henningsson, Susanne ^a   Westberg, Lars ^a   Nilsson, Staffan ^b   Lundström, Bengt ^a   Ekselius, Lisa ^c   Bodlund, Owe ^d   Lindström, Eva ^c   Hellstrand, Monika ^a   Rosmond, Roland ^a   Eriksson, Elias ^a   Landén, Mikael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^c UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d UMEÅ UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^e KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Aromatase; Estrogen receptor beta; Gender identity disorder; Polymorphisms; Sexual differentiation; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; SEX HORMONE;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EXON; GENE INTERACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; INTRON; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 20944435520     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2005.02.006     Document Type: Article

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