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Wilms' tumor protein Wt1 is an activator of the anti-Müllerian hormone receptor gene Amhr2.
Molecular and cellular biology - 1 Jun 2007
Klattig Jürgen, Sierig Ralph, Kruspe Dagmar, Besenbeck Birgit, Englert Christoph
Abstract excerpt
The Wilms' tumor protein Wt1 plays an essential role in mammalian urogenital development. WT1 mutations in humans lead to a variety of disorders, including Wilms' tumor, a pediatric kidney cancer, as well as Frasier and Denys-Drash syndromes. Phenotypic anomalies in Denys-Drash syndrome include pseudohermaphroditism and sex reversal in extreme cases. We have used cDNA microarray analyses on Wt1 knockout mice to...
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