[DAX1 (for dosage-sensitive sex reversal, adrenal hypoplasia congenital critical region on the X chromosome, gene 1; also called NROB1) mutations are responsible for adrenal failure and hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in patients with adrenal hypoplasia congenita (AHC), through a loss of trans-repression of SF-1 (for steroidogenic factor-1)-mediated StAR (for steroidogenic acute regulatory protein) and LHbeta transcriptional activities and a reduction of GnRH expression.]. Sentence from MEDLINE/PubMed, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Gene-disease associations inferred from text-mining the literature.
DisGeNET evidence - LITERATURE