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Review

Nonsyndromic Disorders of Testicular Development Overview

Lauren Mohnach  1 , Patricia Y Fechner  2 , Catherine E Keegan  1
Margaret P Adam, Jerry Feldman, Ghayda M Mirzaa, Roberta A Pagon, Stephanie E Wallace, Anne Amemiya
, editors.
In: GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993.
[updated ].
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Review

Nonsyndromic Disorders of Testicular Development Overview

Lauren Mohnach et al.

Excerpt

The purpose of this overview is to:

  1. 1

    To describe the clinical characteristics of nonsyndromic disorders of testicular development;

  2. 2

    To review the genetic causes of nonsyndromic disorders of testicular development and conditions that may be in the differential diagnosis;

  3. 3

    To provide an evaluation strategy to identify the genetic cause of nonsyndromic disorders of testicular development (when possible);

  4. 4

    To inform management regarding sex of rearing, medical/surgical intervention (when appropriate), hormone therapy, and psychosocial aspects of care;

  5. 5

    To inform genetic risk assessment in family members of a proband.

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