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LRH-1 May Rescue SF-1 Deficiency for Steroidogenesis: An in vitro and in vivo Study.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2015
Camats Núria, Audí Laura, Fernández-Cancio Mónica, Andaluz Pilar, Mullis Primus E, Carrascosa Antonio, Flück Christa E
Abstract excerpt
Steroidogenic factor 1 (NR5A1/SF-1) mutations usually manifest in 46,XY individuals with variable degrees of disordered sex development and in 46,XX women with ovarian insufficiency. So far, there is no genotype-phenotype correlation. The broad spectrum of phenotype with NR5A1 mutations may be due to a second hit in a gene with similar function to NR5A1/SF-1. Liver receptor homologue-1 (LRH-1/NR5A2) might be a...
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