Identification of new susceptibility regions for X;Y translocations in patients with testicular disorder of sex development

Sexual Development

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-6

  Beaulieu Bergeron, M ^a,b,d   Lemyre, E ^a,c,d   Lemieux, N ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b Département de Pathologie   (Canada)

^c Service de Génétique   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTREAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

46,XX testicular disorder of sex development; PRKX PRKY recombination; X; Y translocation; XX males; XX sex reversal

Indexed keywords

PRKX PROTEIN, HUMAN; PRKY PROTEIN, HUMAN; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; FLUORESCENCE IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; SEX DIFFERENTIATION DISORDER; SRY GENE; TWINS; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

46, XX TESTICULAR DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, BACTERIAL; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, X; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DISEASES IN TWINS; GENES, SRY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GONADAL DYSGENESIS, 46,XY; HUMANS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION, FLUORESCENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 79551567700     PISSN: 16615425     EISSN: 16615433     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000321995     Document Type: Article

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