Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 381-391 , September 2007

Sexual dimorphism of gonadal development

  • Olle Söder, MD, PhD (Professor of Paediatrics)

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.05.002

Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 381-391 , September 2007

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