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Monozygotic twins of opposite sex.
Cytogenetics and cell genetics - 1 Jan 2000
Wachtel S S, Somkuti S G, Schinfeld J S
Abstract excerpt
Although discordant karyotypes are known in identical twins, cases involving differences in sex phenotype are rare. We studied identical twins with the 46,XY karyotype - a male with mixed gonadal dysgenesis and a female with "pure" gonadal dysgenesis. The testis-determining SRY gene was present in DNA from both twins but no mutations were detected in the SRY conserved motif. Monozygosity was indicated by short...
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