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Mechanisms of disease: pharmacogenetics of testosterone therapy in hypogonadal men.
Nature clinical practice. Urology - 1 Mar 2007
Zitzmann Michael
Abstract excerpt
A defective, mutated androgen receptor may lead to variable phenotypes of androgen insensitivity in humans. Also, the CAG repeat polymorphism in exon 1 of the androgen receptor gene modulates androgen effects; in vitro, transcription of androgen-dependent target genes is attenuated with increasing length of triplet residues. Clinically, the CAG repeat polymorphism causes significant modulations of androgenicity...
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