Sex determination, gonadal sex differentiation, and plasticity in vertebrate species

Y Nagahama, T Chakraborty… - Physiological …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
A diverse array of sex determination (SD) mechanisms, encompassing environmental to
genetic, have been found to exist among vertebrates, covering a spectrum from fixed SD …

Vertebrate sex determination: evolutionary plasticity of a fundamental switch

B Capel - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2017 - nature.com
The discovery of the Sry gene in 1990 triggered a revolution in our understanding of sex
determination. More recently, advances in non-model organisms have been fuelled by the …

Testis development

JA Mäkelä, JJ Koskenniemi, HE Virtanen… - Endocrine …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Production of sperm and androgens is the main function of the testis. This depends on
normal development of both testicular somatic cells and germ cells. A genetic program …

Disorders of sex development: insights from targeted gene sequencing of a large international patient cohort

S Eggers, S Sadedin, JA Van Den Bergen, G Robevska… - Genome biology, 2016 - Springer
Background Disorders of sex development (DSD) are congenital conditions in which
chromosomal, gonadal, or phenotypic sex is atypical. Clinical management of DSD is often …

Sex-stratified genome-wide association studies including 270,000 individuals show sexual dimorphism in genetic loci for anthropometric traits

JC Randall, TW Winkler, Z Kutalik, SI Berndt… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Given the anthropometric differences between men and women and previous evidence of
sex-difference in genetic effects, we conducted a genome-wide search for sexually …

Exome sequencing for the diagnosis of 46, XY disorders of sex development

RM Baxter, VA Arboleda, H Lee… - The Journal of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Context: Disorders of sex development (DSD) are clinical conditions where there is a
discrepancy between the chromosomal sex and the phenotypic (gonadal or genital) sex of …

Disorders of sex development: new genes, new concepts

M Ono, VR Harley - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2013 - nature.com
Formerly known as' intersex'conditions, disorders of sex development (DSDs) are congenital
conditions in which chromosomal, gonadal or anatomical sex is atypical. A complete …

DSDs: genetics, underlying pathologies and psychosexual differentiation

VA Arboleda, DE Sandberg, E Vilain - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2014 - nature.com
Mammalian sex determination is the unique process whereby a single organ, the bipotential
gonad, undergoes a developmental switch that promotes its differentiation into either a testis …

Mammalian sex determination—insights from humans and mice

S Eggers, A Sinclair - Chromosome research, 2012 - Springer
Disorders of sex development (DSD) are congenital conditions in which the development of
chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical. Many of the genes required for gonad …

Switching on sex: transcriptional regulation of the testis-determining gene Sry

C Larney, TL Bailey, P Koopman - Development, 2014 - journals.biologists.com
Mammalian sex determination hinges on the development of ovaries or testes, with testis
fate being triggered by the expression of the transcription factor sex-determining region Y …