Congenital adrenal hyperplasia: biochemical and molecular perspectives.

Abstract excerpt

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a disorder occurring in both sexes and is the commonest cause of ambiguous genitalia. It is a group of autosomal recessive disorders in which, on the basis of an enzyme defect the bulk of steroid hormone production by adrenal cortex shifts from corticosteroids to...

Topics

• Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
• Humans
• Mutation
• Phosphoproteins
• Steroid Hydroxylases