Cis-Regulatory Control of Mammalian Sex Determination
Sex determination is the process by which an initial bipotential gonad adopts either a testicular or ovarian cell fate. The inability to properly complete this process leads to a group of developmental disorders classified as disorders of sex development (DSD). To date, dozens of genes were shown to play roles in mammalian sex determination, and mutations in these genes can cause DSD in humans or gonadal sex reversal/dysfunction in mice. However, exome sequencing currently provides genetic diagnosis for only less than half of DSD patients. This points towards a major role for the non-coding genome during sex determination. In this review, we highlight recent advances in our understanding of non-coding, cis-acting gene regulatory elements and discuss how they may control transcriptional programmes that underpin sex determination in the context of the 3-dimensional folding of chromatin. As a paradigm, we focus on the Sox9 gene, a prominent pro-male factor and one of the most extensively studied genes in gonadal cell fate determination.
- Location
-
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- Extent
-
Online-Ressource
- Language
-
Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
-
Cis-Regulatory Control of Mammalian Sex Determination ; volume:15 ; number:5-6 ; year:2021 ; pages:317-334 ; extent:18
Sexual development ; 15, Heft 5-6 (2021), 317-334 (gesamt 18)
- Creator
-
Ridnik, Meshi
Schoenfelder, Stefan
Gonen, Nitzan
- DOI
-
10.1159/000519244
- URN
-
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021122223144994668151
- Rights
-
Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
- Last update
-
15.08.2025, 7:37 AM CEST
Data provider
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. If you have any questions about the object, please contact the data provider.
Associated
- Ridnik, Meshi
- Schoenfelder, Stefan
- Gonen, Nitzan
Other Objects (12)
A cis-regulatory logic simulator
Genome-wide profiling of angiogenic cis-regulatory elements unravels cis-regulatory SNPs for vascular abnormality
Unraveling the transcriptional Cis-regulatory code
Unraveling the transcriptional Cis-regulatory code
Statistical significance of cis-regulatory modules
OncoCis: annotation of cis-regulatory mutations in cancer
Cis-regulatory sequences in transcription and splicing
GPMiner: an integrated system for mining combinatorial cis-regulatory elements in mammalian gene group
Integration of local and regional cis-regulatory information
Predicting gene co-expression from CIS-regulatory regions
Using hexamers to predict cis-regulatory motifs in Drosophila
High-throughput discovery of post-transcriptional cis-regulatory elements
A cis-regulatory logic simulator
Genome-wide profiling of angiogenic cis-regulatory elements unravels cis-regulatory SNPs for vascular abnormality
Unraveling the transcriptional Cis-regulatory code
Unraveling the transcriptional Cis-regulatory code
Statistical significance of cis-regulatory modules
OncoCis: annotation of cis-regulatory mutations in cancer
Cis-regulatory sequences in transcription and splicing
GPMiner: an integrated system for mining combinatorial cis-regulatory elements in mammalian gene group
Integration of local and regional cis-regulatory information
Predicting gene co-expression from CIS-regulatory regions
Using hexamers to predict cis-regulatory motifs in Drosophila
High-throughput discovery of post-transcriptional cis-regulatory elements
A cis-regulatory logic simulator
Genome-wide profiling of angiogenic cis-regulatory elements unravels cis-regulatory SNPs for vascular abnormality
Unraveling the transcriptional Cis-regulatory code
Unraveling the transcriptional Cis-regulatory code
Statistical significance of cis-regulatory modules
OncoCis: annotation of cis-regulatory mutations in cancer
Cis-regulatory sequences in transcription and splicing
GPMiner: an integrated system for mining combinatorial cis-regulatory elements in mammalian gene group
Integration of local and regional cis-regulatory information
Predicting gene co-expression from CIS-regulatory regions
Using hexamers to predict cis-regulatory motifs in Drosophila