| Literature DB >> 22218443 |
Maricilda Palandi de Mello1, Emerson Salvador de Souza França, Helena Campos Fabbri, Andréa Trevas Maciel-Guerra, Gil Guerra-Júnior.
Abstract
Disorders of sex development (DSD) involve several conditions that result from abnormalities during gonadal determination and differentiation. Some of these disorders may manifest at birth by ambiguous genitalia; others are diagnosed only at puberty, by the delayed onset of secondary sexual characteristics. Sex determination and differentiation in humans are processes that involve the interaction of several genes such as WT1, NR5A1, NR0B1, SOX9, among others, in the testicular pathway, and WNT4, DAX1, FOXL2 and RSPO1, in the ovarian pathway. One of the major proteins in mammalian gonadal differentiation is the steroidogenic nuclear receptor factor 1 (SF1). This review will cover some of the most recent data on SF1 functional roles and findings related to mutations in its coding gene, NR5A1.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 22218443 DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27302011000800015
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol ISSN: 0004-2730