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A human XY female with a frame shift mutation in the candidate testis-determining gene SRY.
Nature - 29 Nov 1990
Jäger R J, Anvret M, Hall K, Scherer G
Abstract excerpt
The primary decision about male or female sexual development of the human embryo depends on the presence of the Y chromosome, more specifically on a gene on the Y chromosome encoding a testis-determining factor, TDF. The human sex-determining region has been delimited to a 35-kilobase interval near the Y pseudoautosomal boundary. In this region there is a candidate gene for TDF, termed SRY, which is conserved and...
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