Testosterone concentrations in men affected by genetic makeup

Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 16:00 in Health & Medicine

Genetics play an important role in the variation in, and risk of, low testosterone concentrations in men. A study by the CHARGE Sex Hormone Consortium, published in the open-access journal PLoS Genetics on Thursday, 6th October, is the first genome-wide association study to examine the effects of common genetic variants on serum testosterone concentrations in men.

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