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. 2021 Nov 15;22(22):12324. doi: 10.3390/ijms222212324

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Steroid hormone activity—higher 17, 20-lyase activity should be indicated by higher levels of DHEA, DHEA-S and androstenedione. One step further, higher levels of androstenediol and testosterone in line with increased 17B-HSD and 3B-HSD are indicative of a general hyperandrogenism in autism [39].