What a difference an X or Y makes: Sex chromosomes, gene dose, and epigenetics in sexual differentiation

Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology

Volumn 214, Issue , 2012, Pages 67-88

  Arnold, Arthur P ^a   Chen, Xuqi ^a   Itoh, Yuichiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Four core genotypes; Gene networks; Hormones; Sex chromosome; Sexome; X chromosome; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; EPIGENETICS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; GENE DOSAGE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; NEURAL TUBE DEFECT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; VIRUS INFECTION; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME; ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; MALE; REVIEW; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESS; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; FEMALE; GENE DOSAGE; HUMANS; MALE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SEX CHROMOSOMES; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

EID: 84868320454     PISSN: 01712004     EISSN: 18650325     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30726-3_4     Document Type: Article

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