ESPE Abstracts

Introduction: Disorders of sex development are challenging conditions for patients, parents and the interdisciplinary health care team. Sex assignment of these patients needs optimal hormonal profile and molecular diagnosis. This study aimed at finding a new tool for differentiation between partial androgen insensitivity and 5 alpha reductase deficiency especially when the molecular diagnosis is unavailable or highly expensive if available.Methods and Su...

Background: Ectodermal dysplasia is considered as an inherited multi-systemic disorder affecting tissues derived from ectoderm (skin, hair, teeth, nails and sweat glands). There are many genes involved in genetic background of this disorder with variable modes of inheritance. The thrombospondin-type laminin G domain and epilepsy- associated repeats (TSPEAR) gene have been found in some patients with this disorder with interesting variable phenotypic spectrum. ...

Background: Disorder of sex development (DSD) includes a wide spectrum of clinical disorders affecting gonadal and genital development. Many causative gene mutations are involved in these disorders. One of these genes is nuclear receptor subfamily 5 group A member 1 (NR5A1) encoding Steroidogenic factor-1 (SF-1) located on chr 9q33.3. This gene is expressed in many tissues such as Sertoli cell and Leydig cell in testes, ovaries, placenta, adrenal cortex, hypot...