AmiGO 2: Term Details for "development of secondary sexual characteristics" (GO:0045136)

Accession: GO:0045136
Name: development of secondary sexual characteristics
Ontology: biological_process
Synonyms: None
Alternate IDs: None
Definition: The process whose specific outcome is the progression of the secondary sexual characteristics over time, from their formation to the mature structures. In humans, these include growth of axillary, chest, and pubic hair, voice changes, testicular/penile enlargement, breast development and menstrual periods. Development occurs in response to sex hormone secretion. Source: GOC:ai
Comment: None
History: See term history for GO:0045136 at QuickGO
Chem. react.: None
Subset: None
Related: Link to all genes and gene products annotated to development of secondary sexual characteristics (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations to development of secondary sexual characteristics (excluding "regulates").; Link to all direct and indirect annotations download (limited to first 10,000) for development of secondary sexual characteristics (excluding "regulates").

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subject	relation	object
development of secondary sexual characteristics	is_a	developmental process involved in reproduction (GO:0003006)

subject	relation	object
development of secondary male sexual characteristics (GO:0046544)	is_a	development of secondary sexual characteristics
development of secondary female sexual characteristics (GO:0046543)	is_a	development of secondary sexual characteristics

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