Clinical biochemistry of dihydrotestosterone

@article{Marchetti2013ClinicalBO,
  title={Clinical biochemistry of dihydrotestosterone},
  author={Paula Marchetti and Julian H. Barth},
  journal={Annals of Clinical Biochemistry},
  year={2013},
  volume={50},
  pages={107 - 95},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8325257}
}
The physiology of D HT production and action is described, current concepts in the role of DHT in the pathogenesis of various disorders of sexual development are summarized, current methods for the measurement are compared, and a conclusion on the clinical utility ofDHT measurement is concluded.
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