46,XY disorders of sex development - The undermasculinised male with disorders of androgen action

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 263-277

  Werner, Ralf ^a   Grötsch, Helga ^a   Hiort, Olaf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

Author keywords

androgen insensitivity; androgen receptor; cofactors; dihydrotestosterone; genetics; mutations; testosterone

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; ANDROSTANOLONE; APOLIPOPROTEIN D; CYCLOPHILIN; ESTROGEN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; FOLLITROPIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; GONADOTROPIN; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MUELLERIAN INHIBITING FACTOR; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE BINDING PROTEIN; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE 17BETA DEHYDROGENASE; TESTOSTERONE ENANTATE; ANDROGEN RECEPTOR;

46 XY DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ANDROGEN DEFICIENCY; ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME Q BAND; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FETUS CIRCULATION; FLUORESCENCE RECOVERY AFTER PHOTOBLEACHING; GEL MOBILITY SHIFT ASSAY; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GONADECTOMY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HORMONE BINDING; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MORPHOGENESIS; MOSAICISM; MUELLERIAN DUCT; NONSENSE MUTATION; REVIEW; RNA SPLICING; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SEX ROLE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL MATURATION; SEXUAL ORIENTATION; SKIN FIBROBLAST; UPREGULATION; UROGENITAL SINUS; X CHROMOSOME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; GENETICS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; INFANT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PUBERTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANDROGEN-INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; GONADAL DYSGENESIS, 46,XY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PUBERTY; RECEPTORS, ANDROGEN; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDERS;

EID: 77956622556     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2009.11.002     Document Type: Review

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