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Genotypes and Haplotypes of the Estrogen Receptor α Gene (ESR1) Are Associated With Female-to-Male Gender Dysphoria.
The journal of sexual medicine - 1 Mar 2017
Cortés-Cortés Joselyn, Fernández Rosa, Teijeiro Nerea, Gómez-Gil Esther, Esteva Isabel, Almaraz Mari Cruz, Guillamón Antonio, Pásaro Eduardo
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INTRODUCTION: Gender dysphoria, a marked incongruence between one's experienced gender and biological sex, is commonly believed to arise from discrepant cerebral and genital sexual differentiation. With the discovery that estrogen receptor β is associated with female-to-male (FtM) but not with male-to-female (MtF) gender dysphoria, and given estrogen receptor α involvement in central nervous system...
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