CYP1B1 and kidney disorder: Apart from their direct role in modulating host cholesterol metabolism, members of the Cyp family such as Cyp4501b1(Cyp1b1) are involved in the metabolism of sex steroidal hormones with the resultant metabolites produced being implicated to play a role in the gender differences noticed to the susceptibility to cardiac and renal diseases (Jennings et al., 2014; Pingili et al., 2015, 2016; Song et al., 2016; Thirunavukkarasu et al., 2016b).