Developmental vitamin D deficiency increases foetal exposure to testosterone

Developmental vitamin D deficiency increases foetal exposure to testosterone

Abstract Background Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a group of neurodevelopmental disorders which are more common in males. The ‘prenatal sex steroid’ hypothesis links excessive sex-steroid exposure during foetal life with the behavioural differences observed in ASD. However, the reason why sex st...

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Main Authors: Asad Amanat Ali, Xiaoying Cui, Renata Aparecida Nedel Pertile, Xiang Li, Gregory Medley, Suzanne Adele Alexander, Andrew J. O. Whitehouse, John Joseph McGrath, Darryl Walter Eyles
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-12-01
Series:Molecular Autism
Subjects:
Developmental vitamin D deficiency
Autism
Testosterone
Aromatase
Methylation
Animal model
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13229-020-00399-2

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