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Compound heterozygous mutations (PHE53/54DEL and HIS373LEU) of the P450c17 gene result in a 17alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficient male pseudohermaphrodite with unambiguous external genitalia.

The autosomal recessive disease 17alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficiency is characterized by mutation of the P450c17 enzyme, which catalyzes 17alpha-hydroxylation and 17,20-lysis in the steroidogenic pathways. Although 17 mutations of this enzyme have been reported, only a few of them resulted in a completely unambiguous phenotype of female external genitalia in 46, XY individuals. We report here a Japanese patient with a 46,XY karyotype, who showed such a unambiguous female external genitalia. Nucleotide sequencing of the P450c17 gene revealed the patient to be a compound heterozygote carrying two different mutations (PHE53/54DEL in exon 1 and HIS373LEU in exon 6). As these mutations have been previously detected in unrelated Japanese patients, it is confirmed that these mutations accumulate regionally. Since these mutations could be screened by a multiple genotyping method, the method is applicable when 17alpha-hydroxylase/17, 20-lyase deficiency is suspected in Japanese patients.[1]

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  1. Compound heterozygous mutations (PHE53/54DEL and HIS373LEU) of the P450c17 gene result in a 17alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase deficient male pseudohermaphrodite with unambiguous external genitalia. Uehara, S., Sato, J., Nishiyama, Y., Matsuzaki, S., Funato, T., Murotsuki, J., Yaegashi, N., Okamura, K., Yajima, A. Tohoku J. Exp. Med. (2000) [Pubmed]
 
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