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Yearbook of Paediatric Endocrinology 2020

6. Differences/Disorders of Sex Development and Transgender Medicine

Christa E Flück, Grit Sommer, Anna Nordenström

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6. Differences/Disorders of Sex Development and Transgender Medicine

Fluck Christa E. , Sommer Grit , Nordenstrom Anna

Preface: In the last year the scientific community was again very active in research in both topics, differences/disorders of sex development (DSD) and transgender medicine.In DSD, next generation sequencing approaches revealed novel variants in genes so far not suspected to participate in sex development (e.g. MYRF, DHX37, PPP1R12A ). This expands the landscape of genes and proteins involved in DSD and provides further challenges for explaining...