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The Genetics of Disorders of Sex Development in Humans
1 Jan 2014
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One of the defining events during human embryonic development with the most far-reaching effects for the individual is whether the embryo develops as male or female. The crucial step in this process is the differentiation of the bipotential embryonic gonads into either testes or ovaries. If the embryo inherits X and Y sex chromosomes, the Y-linked SRY (sex determining region in Y) gene initiates a network of...
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