{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Chen Z"],"funding":["Scientific Research Foundation for Young Investigators of Peking Union Medical College Hospital","NIEHS NIH HHS","National Institutes of Health"],"pagination":["32-42"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC4457386"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["399"],"pubmed_abstract":["<h4>Objectives</h4>Aromatase deficiency is a rare disorder resulting in estrogen insufficiency in humans. It has been reported in remarkably few men with loss-of-function mutations in the CYP19A1 gene encoding the aromatase, a cytochrome P450 enzyme that plays a crucial role in the biosynthesis of estrogens from androgens. We investigated a non-consanguineous family including an adult man with clinical features of aromatase deficiency, and studied the effects of estrogen replacement in the man.<h4>Methods</h4>We investigated the clinical and biochemical phenotype, performed CYP19A1 mutational analysis in the family and 50 unrelated persons, studied the effects of CYP19A1 mutations on aromatase protein structure, functionally characterized the mutations by cell-based aromatase activity assa"],"journal":["Molecular and cellular endocrinology"],"pubmed_title":["Aromatase deficiency in a Chinese adult man caused by novel compound heterozygous CYP19A1 mutations: effects of estrogen replacement therapy on the bone, lipid, liver and glucose metabolism."],"pmcid":["PMC4457386"],"funding_grant_id":["ES08258","2006118","R01 ES008258"],"pubmed_authors":["Jiang Y","Wang O","Chen Z","Xing X","Zhou D","Nie M","Elison K","Chen S","Li M","Xia W","Meng X"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Aromatase deficiency in a Chinese adult man caused by novel compound heterozygous CYP19A1 mutations: effects of estrogen replacement therapy on the bone, lipid, liver and glucose metabolism.","description":"<h4>Objectives</h4>Aromatase deficiency is a rare disorder resulting in estrogen insufficiency in humans. It has been reported in remarkably few men with loss-of-function mutations in the CYP19A1 gene encoding the aromatase, a cytochrome P450 enzyme that plays a crucial role in the biosynthesis of estrogens from androgens. We investigated a non-consanguineous family including an adult man with clinical features of aromatase deficiency, and studied the effects of estrogen replacement in the man.<h4>Methods</h4>We investigated the clinical and biochemical phenotype, performed CYP19A1 mutational analysis in the family and 50 unrelated persons, studied the effects of CYP19A1 mutations on aromatase protein structure, functionally characterized the mutations by cell-based aromatase activity assa","dates":{"release":"2015-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2015 Jan","modification":"2026-04-14T17:08:52.207Z","creation":"2019-03-27T01:52:54Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC4457386","cross_references":{"pubmed":["25301327"],"doi":["10.1016/j.mce.2014.09.016"]}}