A polymorphism of the CYP17 gene related to sex steroid metabolism is associated with female-to-male but not male-to-female transsexualism

Fertility and Sterility

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-59

  Bentz, Eva Katrin ^a   Hefler, Lukas A ^b   Kaufmann, Ulrike ^a   Huber, Johannes C ^a   Kolbus, Andrea ^a   Tempfer, Clemens B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIV KLIN FÜR FRAUENHEILKUNDE   (Austria)

Author keywords

CYP17; gender; polymorphism; sex steroids; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME P450 17; SEX HORMONE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STEROID METABOLISM;

ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; STEROID 17-ALPHA-HYDROXYLASE; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 45849101306     PISSN: 00150282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.05.056     Document Type: Article

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