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SUBMITTER: Rossi E
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4091935 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rossi Elena E Radi Orietta O De Lorenzi Lisa L Vetro Annalisa A Groppetti Debora D Bigliardi Enrico E Luvoni Gaia Cecilia GC Rota Ada A Camerino Giovanna G Zuffardi Orsetta O Parma Pietro P
PloS one 20140710 7
Sexual development in mammals is based on a complicated and delicate network of genes and hormones that have to collaborate in a precise manner. The dark side of this pathway is represented by pathological conditions, wherein sexual development does not occur properly either in the XX and the XY background. Among them a conundrum is represented by the XX individuals with at least a partial testis differentiation even in absence of SRY. This particular condition is present in various mammals incl ...[more]