Caring for individuals with a difference of sex development (DSD): a consensus statement

M Cools, A Nordenström, R Robeva, J Hall… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
The term differences of sex development (DSDs; also known as disorders of sex
development) refers to a heterogeneous group of congenital conditions affecting human sex …

Genetics in endocrinology: approaches to molecular genetic diagnosis in the management of differences/disorders of sex development (DSD): position paper of EU …

L Audi, SF Ahmed, N Krone, M Cools… - European Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The differential diagnosis of differences or disorders of sex development (DSD) belongs to
the most complex fields in medicine. It requires a multidisciplinary team conducting a …

Human sex reversal is caused by duplication or deletion of core enhancers upstream of SOX9

B Croft, T Ohnesorg, J Hewitt, J Bowles, A Quinn… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Disorders of sex development (DSDs) are conditions affecting development of the gonads or
genitalia. Variants in two key genes, SRY and its target SOX9, are an established cause of …

At the crossroads of fate—somatic cell lineage specification in the fetal gonad

E Rotgers, A Jørgensen, HHC Yao - Endocrine reviews, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The reproductive endocrine systems are vastly different between males and females. This
sexual dimorphism of the endocrine milieu originates from sex-specific differentiation of the …

Next-generation sequencing reveals genetic landscape in 46, XY disorders of sexual development patients with variable phenotypes

H Wang, L Zhang, N Wang, H Zhu, B Han, F Sun… - Human genetics, 2018 - Springer
Disorders of sexual development (DSD) are rare congenital conditions in which
chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical. Currently, less than 20% of patients …

The role of copy number variants in disorders of sex development

B Croft, T Ohnesorg, AH Sinclair - Sexual Development, 2018 - karger.com
Despite considerable research effort and significant advances in sequencing technologies,
the majority of disorders of sex development (DSD) cases still lack a molecular genetic …

Loss of p300 and CBP disrupts histone acetylation at the mouse Sry promoter and causes XY gonadal sex reversal

GA Carré, P Siggers, M Xipolita, P Brindle… - Human molecular …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract CREB-binding protein (CBP, CREBBP, KAT3A) and its closely related paralogue
p300 (EP300, KAT3B), together termed p300/CBP, are histone/lysine acetyl-transferases …

Transcriptomic analysis of mRNA expression and alternative splicing during mouse sex determination

L Zhao, C Wang, ML Lehman, M He, J An… - Molecular and cellular …, 2018 - Elsevier
Mammalian sex determination hinges on sexually dimorphic transcriptional programs in
developing fetal gonads. A comprehensive view of these programs is crucial for …

Functional characterization of novel NR5A1 variants reveals multiple complex roles in disorders of sex development

G Robevska, JA Van Den Bergen, T Ohnesorg… - Human …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Variants in the NR5A1 gene encoding SF1 have been described in a diverse spectrum of
disorders of sex development (DSD). Recently, we reported the use of a targeted gene …

New technologies to uncover the molecular basis of disorders of sex development

H Barseghyan, EC Délot, E Vilain - Molecular and cellular endocrinology, 2018 - Elsevier
The elegant developmental biology experiments conducted in the 1940s by French
physiologist Alfred Jost demonstrated that the sexual phenotype of a mammalian embryo …