Phenotype, hormonal profile and genotype of subjects with partial androgen insensitivity syndrome: Report of a family with four adult males and one child with disorder of sexual differentiation

Andrologia

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 257-263

  Kulshreshtha, B ^a   Philibert, P ^b   Eunice, M ^a   Audran, F ^b   Paris, F ^b   Khurana, M L ^a   Ammini, A C ^a   Charles, S ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

5 Alpha reductase; Androgen insensitivity; Genotype; Phenotype

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; BOLDENONE; FOLLITROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 2; TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; FAMILY HISTORY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GYNECOMASTIA; HEMIZYGOSITY; HETEROZYGOSITY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RECEPTOR GENE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; VIRILIZATION;

ADULT; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 5-ALPHA-REDUCTASE;

EID: 67650708690     PISSN: 03034569     EISSN: 14390272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0272.2009.00921.x     Document Type: Article

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