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Complete XY gonadal dysgenesis and aspects of the SRYgenotype and gonadal tumor formation.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2002
Uehara Shigeki, Hashiyada Masaki, Sato Kazuyo, Nata Masayuki, Funato Tadao, Okamura Kumihiro
Abstract excerpt
XY gonadal dysgenesis can be classified as either complete or incomplete according to gonadal morphology. The disease is a sex-reversal disorder resulting from embryonic testicular regression sequences and is induced by mutations in the sex-determining region Y ( SRY) gene. The incidence of SRY mutations is thought to be approximately 20%. As the disease is characterized by a frequent complication of gonadal...
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