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Monozygotic twins with discordant sex.
Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae - 1 Jan 1992
Kurosawa K, Kuromaru R, Imaizumi K, Nakamura Y, Ishikawa F, Ueda K, Kuroki Y
Abstract excerpt
A nine-year-old girl with short stature was referred to the department of pediatrics at Kyushu University. The clinical diagnosis was Turner syndrome; karyotypic analysis performed on peripheral blood, using GTG techniques, demonstrated a 45,X/47,XYY (17:83) mosaicism. Her twin brother, a phenotypically normal male, had the same karyotype; 45,X/47,XYY (3:97) on peripheral blood. Their skin fibroblast karyotypes...
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