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5 alpha-reductase-2 gene mutations in the Dominican Republic.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 May 1996
Cai L Q, Zhu Y S, Katz M D, Herrera C, Baéz J, DeFillo-Ricart M, Shackleton C H, Imperato-McGinley J
Abstract excerpt
Male pseudohermaphroditism due to 5 alpha-reductase deficiency was clinically and biochemically described in a large Dominican kindred of 23 families with 38 affected subjects in 1974. Recently, the 5 alpha-reductase-2 gene defect in the large Dominican kindred was found to be due to a single base substitution of thymidine (TGG) for cytosine (CGG) on exon 5 of the 5 alpha-reductase-2 gene, causing a tryptophan...
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