The molecular and cellular basis of gonadal sex reversal in mice and humans

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Developmental Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 559-577

  Warr, Nick ^a   Greenfield, Andy ^a  

^a MRC MAMMALIAN GENETICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9;

CELL PROLIFERATION; CHIMERA; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FOXL2 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GONAD FUNCTION; HUMAN; MAMMAL; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NONHUMAN; ORGANOGENESIS; OVARY; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX TRANSFORMATION; SRY GENE; TESTIS; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT; WNT SIGNALING PATHWAY; XY GONADAL DYSGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL LINEAGE; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; EMBRYONIC STEM CELLS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GONADS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; SEX DETERMINATION PROCESSES;

EID: 84869081543     PISSN: 17597684     EISSN: 17597692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wdev.42     Document Type: Review

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