Mechanisms of Disease: Normal and abnormal gonadal development and sex determination in mammals

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 616-627

  Val, Pierre ^a   Swain, Amanda ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CANCER RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gonadal development; Organogenesis; Sex determination; Sex differentiation

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR; SOMATOMEDIN; SONIC HEDGEHOG PROTEIN; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXL 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR POD 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SF 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR WT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT PROTEIN; WNT4 PROTEIN;

FERTILIZATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC DISORDER; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; OVARY DISEASE; PHENOTYPE; PRIMORDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; TESTIS DISEASE; TRUE HERMAPHRODITISM;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SEX DETERMINATION (GENETICS);

EID: 31344454595     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro0354     Document Type: Review

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