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Additional deletion in sex-determining region of human Y chromosome resolves paradox of X,t(Y;22) female.
Nature - 19 Jul 1990
Page D C, Fisher E M, McGillivray B, Brown L G
Abstract excerpt
Whether a human embryo develops as a male or a female is determined by the presence of the Y chromosome. The sex-determining function lies entirely in interval 1A, inasmuch as most XX individuals with descended testes and normal male external genitalia carry this small region of the Y chromosome. We have localized an essential part of the sex-determining function to a portion of interval 1A, on the basis of the...
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