title: Anti-Müllerian hormone receptor defect.
abstract: Anti-Müllerian hormone (AMH), produced by gonadal somatic cells, is mainly responsible for the regression of Müllerian ducts--the anlagen of uterus and Fallopian tubes--during male sex differentiation. Like other members of the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta) family, AMH signals through two serine/threonine kinase receptors, of which type II is specific, and type I is shared with the bone morphogenetic protein family. Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome is a rare form of male pseudohermaphroditism characterized by the persistence of Müllerian derivatives in otherwise normally virilized males. It is transmitted according to a recessive autosomic pattern and is due, in 84% of cases, to mutations of AMH and AMH receptor type II genes. Serum AMH is normal for age in patients with AMH type II mutations and low or undetectable in those with AMH mutations. In 14% of cases the origin of the condition is unknown.
authors.affiliation: Unité INSERM 782, Université Paris XI, 32 rue des Carnets, 92140 Clamart, France. nathalie.diclemente@inserm.ipsc.u-psud.fr
authors.forename: Nathalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: di Clemente
authors.forename: Corinne
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Belville
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D054304:Anti-Mullerian Hormone; D003456:Cryptorchidism / Q000473:pathology; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development / Q000235:genetics*; D005260:Female; D005808:Genes, Recessive; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000097:blood / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009095:Mullerian Ducts / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000187:drug effects; D009154:Mutation; D018000:Receptors, Peptide / Q000235:genetics*; D018125:Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta; D015398:Signal Transduction; D013577:Syndrome; D013735:Testicular Hormones / Q000097:blood / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D006023:Glycoproteins; D018000:Receptors, Peptide; D018125:Receptors, Transforming Growth Factor beta; D013735:Testicular Hormones; C084621:anti-Mullerian hormone receptor; D054304:Anti-Mullerian Hormone