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Title: Another Part of the Puzzle
Post by: Shana A on February 23, 2010, 08:43:02 AM
Another Part of the Puzzle
Zoe Brain

http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-part-of-puzzle.html (http://aebrain.blogspot.com/2010/02/another-part-of-puzzle.html)

Thanks to Professor of Urology Sidney Ecker.

Disorders of sex development expose transcriptional autonomy of genetic sex and androgen-programmed hormonal sex in human blood leukocytes. by Holterhus PM, Bebermeier JH, Werner R, Demeter J, Richter-Unruh A, Cario G, Appari M, Siebert R, Riepe F, Brooks JD, Hiort O. BMC Genomics. 2009 Jul 1;10:292.

    BACKGROUND: Gender appears to be determined by independent programs controlled by the sex-chromosomes and by androgen-dependent programming during embryonic development. To enable experimental dissection of these components in the human, we performed genome-wide profiling of the transcriptomes of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) in patients with rare defined "disorders of sex development" (DSD, e.g., 46, XY-females due to defective androgen biosynthesis) compared to normal 46, XY-males and 46, XX-females.