Male sex determination: Insights into molecular mechanisms

Asian Journal of Andrology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 164-171

  McClelland, Kathryn ^a   Bowles, Josephine ^a   Koopman, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

gonadal; knockout; mice; sex determination; sex disorders; sex reversal; sex determining region Y protein; sexual development; testis

Indexed keywords

CATENIN; CYTOCHROME P450; CYTOCHROME P450 26B1; DMRT1 PROTEIN; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR 9; FOLLISTATIN; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXL2 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; PROSTAGLANDIN D2; R SPONDIN HOMOLOGUE 1 PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; WNT4 PROTEIN;

CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; DNA BINDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMINIZATION; FERTILIZATION; G1 PHASE CELL CYCLE CHECKPOINT; GENE; GERM CELL; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HAPLOINSUFFICIENCY; HUMAN; LEYDIG CELL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SF1 GENE; SRY GENE; TESTIS; UPREGULATION; VIRILIZATION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MODELS, ANIMAL; MORPHOGENESIS; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SOX9 TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; SOXB1 TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TESTIS;

EID: 84855430049     PISSN: 1008682X     EISSN: 17457262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/aja.2011.169     Document Type: Review

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