Gender identity disorders

Description

gender identity disorder: A disorder characterized by a strong and persistent cross-gender identification (such as stating a desire to be the other sex or frequently passing as the other sex) coupled with persistent discomfort with his or her sex (manifested in adults, for example, as a preoccupation with altering primary and secondary sex characteristics through hormonal manipulation or surgery).

Data source
FinnGen phenocode F5_GENDER
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: F64, ICD-8: 3023
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: F64, ICD-8: 3023
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2
Ontology
DOID 1234
GWAS catalog 0008587
SNOMED CT 87991007

Key figures

Sex All Female Male
Number of individuals 63 37 26
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 0.05 0.05 0.05
Mean age at first event (years) 30.33 26.74 35.44
Median number of events / individual 7 6 7

Clinical metrics

Sex All Female Male
Recurrence within 6 months (%) 88.89 86.49 92.31
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 1.59 2.7 0.0

Associations