Best Practice & Research Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism
Volume 21, Issue 3 , Pages 393-401 , September 2007

Age-specific changes in sex steroid biosynthesis and sex development

  • Nils Krone, MD (Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist Fellow)
  • Wiebke Arlt, MD, DSc, FRCP (Professor of Medicine, MRC Senior Clinical Fellow)

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    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +44 121 415 8716; Fax: +44 121 415 8712.

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doi: 10.1016/j.beem.2007.06.001

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