Wasn’t Finasteride Developed Based on Research in the Dominican Republic?

Wasn’t finasteride created based on the research DR. julianne imperato-mcginley did in the dominican republic where she followed pseudohermaphrodites that had the alpha 5 reductase type 2 deficiency. I have not read anything regarding an aboriginal tribe in the Amazon. the research that I have read on the internet is that merck created finasteride based on DR. julianne imperato-mcginley research. it doesn’t say anything regarding aboriginal tribes in the Amazon

From this article in the LA Times: “In the early 1970s, Dr. Julianne Imperato-McGinley, an endocrinologist at Cornell Medical College, traveled to a remote mountain village in the Dominican Republic to study a group of children with a unique condition.” DHT was identified as a cause of the problem of ambiguous genitalia. Of course, this led to the development of DHT blockers.

You’re right, though. I guess I misremembered that one. I’ve posted in the past that it was tribe in the Amazon instead of mountain village in the Dominican Republic (that post has since been updated).