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DAX-1, an "antitestis" gene.
EXS - 1 Jan 2001
Goodfellow P N, Camerino G
Abstract excerpt
The DAX-1 gene has been involved in the dosage sensitive sex reversal (DSS) phenotype, a male-to-female sex-reversal syndrome due to the duplication of a small region of human chromosome Xp21. Dax-1 and Sry have been shown to act antagonistically in the mouse system, where increasing expression of the former leads to female development and increasing activity of the latter to male development. Although these data...
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