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Prenatal diagnosis and normal outcome of a 46,XX/46,XY chimera: a case report.
Human reproduction (Oxford, England) - 1 Apr 2007
Malan Valérie, Gesny R, Morichon-Delvallez N, Aubry M C, Benachi A, Sanlaville D, Turleau C, Bonnefont J P, Fekete-Nihoul C, Vekemans M
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The phenotypic spectrum of 46,XX/46,XY chimeric patients is variable. It ranges from normal male or female genitalia to different degrees of ambiguous genitalia. Chimerism results from the amalgamation of two different zygotes in a single embryo, whereas mosaicism results from a mitotic error in a single zygote. Several other mechanisms resulting in a chimera have been discussed in the literature. Here, we report...
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