RT Book, Section
A1 Chen, Min-Jye
A1 Grumbach, Melvin M.
A1 Karaviti, Lefkothea P.
A2 Kline, Mark W.
SR Print(0)
ID 1182920495
T1 Normal Human Sex Differentiation
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 23e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259588594
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1182920495
RD 2024/04/25
AB Human  sexual  development  is  a  sequential  process  that  involves  the  establishment  of  chromosomal  and  genetic  sex  in  the  zygote  at  conception,  the  formation  of  the  bipotential  gonads  into  testes  or  ovaries  (sex  determination),  and  the  development  of  phenotypic  sex  (sex  differentiation)  of  the  genital  tract  and  external  genitalia.  Divergent  differentiation  from  the  chromosomal  sex  is  possible  at  each  level  of  sexual  development.  In  addition,  gender  identity  may  be  established  later  in  life  and  can  be  influenced  by  several  prenatal  and  postnatal  factors.