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The role of SOX2 in hypogonadotropic hypogonadism.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2008
Tziaferi V, Kelberman D, Dattani M T
Abstract excerpt
SOX2 is a transcription factor involved in early embryonic development. It plays a critical role in eye, forebrain, and hypothalamo-pituitary development. Individuals with SOX2 mutations have major eye abnormalities including anophthalmia, microphthalmia, and coloboma. Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism is a complex developmental disorder characterized by gonadotropin deficiency. Recently, a number of patients with...
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