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Aromatase and estrogen receptor α deficiency.
Fertility and sterility - 1 Feb 2014
Bulun Serdar E
Abstract excerpt
Studies on the phenotypes of women and men with mutations disrupting estrogen biosynthesis and action have significantly advanced our knowledge of the physiologic roles of estrogen in humans. Aromatase deficiency results from autosomal recessive inheritance of mutations in the CYP19A1 gene. It gives rise to ambiguous genitalia in 46,XX fetuses. At puberty, affected girls have hypergonadotropic hypogonadism, do...
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