Article
Monozygotic twins with discordant sexual phenotypes due to different ratios of mosaicism of 47,X,idic(Y),idic(Y)/46,X, idic(Y)/45,X.
Endocrine journal - 1 Aug 2002
Nonomura Katsuya, Kakizaki Hidehiro, Fukuzawa Nobuyuki, Fujieda Kenji, Harada Naoki, Niikawa Norio, Koyanagi Tomohiko
Abstract excerpt
We report monozygotic twins of different sexual phenotypes. One of the twins had complete female external genitalia except for a mild clitoromegaly. She had bilateral gonads consisting of the wavy stroma and scant dysgenetic seminiferous tubules. No androgen secretion was induced by gonadotrophin stimulation. The other twin had hypospadiac male genitalia. His gonads were located intrascrotally and he had good...
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