Conditions / Genetic
17-beta hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency
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A pseudohermaphroditism characterized by undermasculinization in males including hypoplastic-to-normal internal genitalia with female external genitalia and the absence of a prostate, impaired testicular synthesis of testosterone resulting in insufficient form
A pseudohermaphroditism characterized by undermasculinization in males including hypoplastic-to-normal internal genitalia with female external genitalia and the absence of a prostate, impaired testicular synthesis of testosterone resulting in insufficient formation of dihydrotestosterone during fetal development and resulting in pseudohermaphroditism in males that has_material_basis_in homozygous or compound heterozygous mutation of the HSD17B3 gene on chromosome 9q22.
Signs and symptoms
- Female external genitalia in individual with 46,XY karyotype
- Gynecomastia
- Abnormality of metabolism/homeostasis
- Infertility
- Hypothyroidism
- Male pseudohermaphroditism
Also known as: 17-KSR deficiency; 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency; 17-ketoreductase deficiency; 17-ketosteroidreductase deficiency; 46,XY disorder of sex development due to 17-beta-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase 3 deficiency