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Sertoli cell tumor and gonadoblastoma in an untreated 29-year-old 46,XY phenotypic male with Frasier syndrome carrying a WT1 IVS9+4C>T mutation.
Hormones (Athens, Greece) - 1 Jan 2000
Kitsiou-Tzeli Sophia, Deligiorgi Maria, Malaktari-Skarantavou Sophia, Vlachopoulos Charalampos, Megremis Spyridon, Fylaktou Irene, Traeger-Synodinos Joanne, Kanaka-Gantenbein Christina, Stefanadis Christodoulos, Kanavakis Emmanuel
Abstract excerpt
OBJECTIVE: Frasier syndrome (FS) phenotype in 46,XY patients usually consists of female external genitalia, gonadal dysgenesis, high risk of gonadoblastoma and the development of end stage renal failure usually in the second decade of life. FS is caused by heterozygous de novo intronic splice site mutations of the Wilms' tumor suppressor gene 1 (WT1), although a few cases with typical exonic WT1 Denys-Drash...
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