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Identification of new susceptibility regions for X;Y translocations in patients with testicular disorder of sex development.
Sexual development : genetics, molecular biology, evolution, endocrinology, embryology, and pathology of sex determination and differentiation - 1 Jan 2011
Beaulieu Bergeron M, Lemyre E, Lemieux N
Abstract excerpt
Testicular disorder of sex development in the presence of a 46,XX karyotype is a rare condition. In most instances, it is caused by an X;Y translocation in the paternal gametes, causing SRY to be transferred on the X chromosome. An abnormal recombination event between homologous genes PRKX and PRKY is implicated in approximately one third of the cases. In this study, we report the characterization by fluorescence...
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