DSDs: Genetics, underlying pathologies and psychosexual differentiation

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 10, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 603-615

  Arboleda, Valerie A ^a   Sandberg, David E ^b   Vilain, Eric ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 5; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN RECEPTOR RELATED PROTEIN 6; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR DAX 1; TESTIS DETERMINING FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR GATA 4; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SOX9; WNT4 PROTEIN;

AMBIGUOUS GENITALIA; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CHROMOSOME 10Q; CHROMOSOME 9P; CLITOROMEGALY; COPY NUMBER VARIATION; CRYPTORCHISM; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISORDER OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; GENDER IDENTITY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GONADAL DYSGENESIS; GRANULOSA CELL; HUMAN; HYPOSPADIAS; INHERITANCE; LEYDIG CELL; MISSENSE MUTATION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; OVARY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; REVIEW; SERTOLI CELL; SEX DETERMINATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TESTIS; XY GONADAL DYSGENESIS; ANIMAL; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; MALE; MUTATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALS; DISORDERS OF SEX DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; MALE; MUTATION; SEX DIFFERENTIATION; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SEXUAL DYSFUNCTIONS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84926228907     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.130     Document Type: Review

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