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BEST PRACTICE & RESEARCH CLINICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY & METABOLISM
Volume 33, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2019.04.005
Keywords
differences of sex development; gonadal dysgenesis; developmental genetics; steroidogenesis; massively parallel sequencing
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- Flanders Research Foundation (FWO)
- BOF-UGent
- FWO
- BOF-UGent junior postdoctoral fellow [01P00818]
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Human gonadal development is regulated by the temporospatial expression of many different genes with critical dosage effects. Subsequent sex steroid hormone production requires several consecutive enzymatic steps and functional hormone receptors. Disruption of this complex process can result in atypical sex development and lead to conditions referred to as differences (disorders) of sex development (DSD). With the advent of massively parallel sequencing technologies, in silico protein modeling and innovative tools for the generation of animal models, new genes and pathways have been implicated in the pathogenesis of these conditions. Here, we provide an overview of the currently known DSD genes and mechanisms involved in the process of gonadal and phenotypical sex development and highlight phenotypic findings that may trigger further diagnostic investigations. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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