Reifenstein Syndrome

Important
It is possible that the major title of the report Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, Partial is not the name you anticipated. Please examine the basic synonyms listing to find the alternate name(s) and condition subdivision(s) covered by this report.

Synonyms

• Gilbert-Dreyfus Disorder
• Insufficient Testicular Feminization
• Lubs Syndrome
• Rosewater Disorder
• Kind I Familial Incomplete Male Pseudohermaphroditism
• Reifenstein Syndrome

Problem Neighborhoods

• None

General Discussion
Androgen insensitivity describes a lack of ability of the physical body to respond effectively to male sex bodily hormones (androgens) created while pregnant. This happens due to an adjustment (mutation) in a gene associated with the production of the healthy protein inside cells that receives the androgen hormonal agent and also instructs the cell in how to utilize it.

Partial androgen ignorance syndrome (pais) becomes part of a range of syndromes that likewise includes androgen insensitivity disorder (AIS) and mild androgen insensitivity syndrome (mais). In each case, the advancement of the reproductive and also genital body organs of the unborn child is affected, as an outcome of the gene mutation.

Throughout the very first 10 weeks of pregnancy, the outside makeup of man and female embryos seems the same. The presence or absence of the male sex hormonal agent testosterone figures out whether man or women genitalia create. In partial androgen ignorance disorder, the development of the external genitals will be more advanced in between male and women (ambiguous genitalia).

Each of these forms of AIS is additionally a genetic type of male pseudohermaphroditism, in which the child is birthed with testes and has both male and also female characteristics. The problem is inherited as an X-linked, recessive characteristic.