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Nature Genetics  34, 32 - 33 (2003)
Published online: 7 April 2003; | doi:10.1038/ng1141

Dax1 is required for testis determination

Joshua J. Meeks, Jeffrey Weiss & J. Larry Jameson

Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 60611, USA.

Correspondence should be addressed to J. Larry Jameson ljameson@northwestern.edu
The orphan nuclear receptor, Dax1, was originally proposed to act as an 'anti-testis' factor. We find, however, that Nr0b1 (also called Dax1 and Ahch, which encodes Dax1) is in fact required for testis differentiation.


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