RT Book, Section
A1 Grumbach, Melvin M.
A2 Rudolph, Colin D.
A2 Rudolph, Abraham M.
A2 Lister, George E.
A2 First, Lewis R.
A2 Gershon, Anne A.
SR Print(0)
ID 7054293
T1 Chapter 538. Normal Human Sex Differentiation
T2 Rudolph's Pediatrics, 22e
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-149723-7
LK accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=7054293
RD 2024/04/19
AB Phenotypic  sex  is  determined  by  a  sequential  process  that  involves  the  establishment  of  chromosomal  and  genetic  sex  in  the  zygote  at  conception,  gonadogenesis  and  the  determination  of  gonadal  sex  (sex  determination),  and  sexual  differentiation  of  the  genital  tract  and  external  genitalia  as  programmed  by  gonadal  sex.1  Divergent  differentiation  from  the  sex  chromosome  constitution  is  possible  at  each  level  of  sexual  organization.  Table  538-1  considers  the  hierarchal  ontogeny  of  sex  from  chromosomal  sex  to  gender  identity.