期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:2020
卷号:117
期号:26
页码:14634-14635
DOI:10.1073/pnas.2007695117
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Newborn girls with P450 oxidoreductase (POR) deficiency regularly present with virilized external genitalia despite low circulating androgens (1). In PNAS, we (2) explain this conundrum by enhanced prenatal activity of an alternative androgen pathway (Fig. 1) while classic androgen biosynthesis is disrupted.