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Multifunctional role of steroidogenic factor 1 and disorders of sex development.
Arquivos brasileiros de endocrinologia e metabologia - 1 Nov 2011
Mello Maricilda Palandi de, França Emerson Salvador de Souza, Fabbri Helena Campos, Maciel-Guerra Andréa Trevas, Guerra-Júnior Gil
Abstract excerpt
Disorders of sex development (DSD) involve several conditions that result from abnormalities during gonadal determination and differentiation. Some of these disorders may manifest at birth by ambiguous genitalia; others are diagnosed only at puberty, by the delayed onset of secondary sexual characteristics. Sex determination and differentiation in humans are processes that involve the interaction of several genes...
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