Association study of gender identity disorder and sex hormone-related genes

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1241-1244

  Ujike, Hiroshi ^a   Otani, Kyohei ^a   Nakatsuka, Mikiya ^b,c   Ishii, Kazushi ^a,c   Sasaki, Aiko ^a   Oishi, Tomoko ^a   Sato, Toshiki ^c,d   Okahisa, Yuko ^a   Matsumoto, Yosuke ^a,c   Namba, Yuzaburo ^a,c   Kimata, Yoshihiro ^a,c   Kuroda, Shigetoshi ^a,c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d Sato Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Androgen receptor; Estrogen receptor; Gender identity disorder; Genetic association study; Transsexualism

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN RECEPTOR; AROMATASE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; PROGESTERONE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMALE TO MALE TRANSSEXUAL; GENDER IDENTITY DISORDER; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALE TO FEMALE TRANSSEXUAL; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSSEXUALISM;

ADULT; AROMATASE; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; FEMALE; GENDER IDENTITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; RECEPTORS, STEROID; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TRANSSEXUALISM;

EID: 69349092890     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2009.07.008     Document Type: Article

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