Identification of an AR mutation in Klinefelter syndrome during evaluation for penoscrotal hypospadias

Sezer Acar, Hale Tuhan, Elçin Bora, Korcan Demir, Hüseyin Onay, Derya Erçal, Ece Böber, Ayhan Abacı

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Genital anomalies, ranging from female genitalia to milder degrees of undervirilization, are rarely reported in Klinefelter syndrome, in which a male is classically expected to be born with male external genitalia. Though androgen insensitivity syndrome (AIS) is one of the possible pathogenic mechanisms also in Klinefelter syndrome with genital anomalies, to date the AR gene has not been analyzed in any of the published cases of Klinefelter syndrome of the milder phenotype …