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Occurrence of Gonadoblastoma in Females with Turner Syndrome and Y Chromosome Material: A Population Study*
1 Sept 2000
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The presence of Y chromosome material in patients with Turner syndrome is a risk factor for the development of gonadoblastoma. However, no cases with gonadoblastoma or other ovarian malignancies have been found in epidemiological studies of cancer, morbidity, or mortality in Turner syndrome. We examined 114 females with Turner syndrome for the presence of Y chromosome material by PCR. Initially, five different...
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