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Association study of gender identity disorder and sex hormone-related genes.
Progress in neuro-psychopharmacology & biological psychiatry - 1 Oct 2009
Ujike Hiroshi, Otani Kyohei, Nakatsuka Mikiya, Ishii Kazushi, Sasaki Aiko, Oishi Tomoko, Sato Toshiki, Okahisa Yuko, Matsumoto Yosuke, Namba Yuzaburo, Kimata Yoshihiro, Kuroda Shigetoshi
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the biological mechanism of gender identity disorder (GID), five candidate sex hormone-related genes, encoding androgen receptor (AR), estrogen receptors alpha (ERalpha) and beta (ERbeta), aromatase (CYP19), and progesterone receptor (PGR) were analyzed by a case-control associatio...
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