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DOI: 10.1590/S0004-27302005000100014
OBJECTIVE: To report the experience regarding patients with steroid 5a-reductase type 2 deficiency from three different clinical services in Brazil. CASUISTIC AND METHODS: Twenty five patients with clinical and hormonal features of 5a-reductase deficiency from 23 families (15 from Bahia, 7 from São Paulo and 1 from Minas Gerais) were included in this study. Clinical, hormonal and molecular data were evaluated. The molecular analysis of the five exons of the SRD5A2 gene was done by automatic or manual sequencing of […]
Keywords: 5alpha-reductase deficiency; Dihydrotestosterone; Intersex; Pseudohermaphroditism; testosterone