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Novel human sex-typing strategies based on the autism candidate gene NLGN4X and its male-specific gametologue NLGN4Y.
Biology of sex differences - 18 Dec 2019
Maxeiner Stephan, Sester Martina, Krasteva-Christ Gabriela
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BACKGROUND: Since the early days of PCR techniques, sex identification, "sex-typing," of genomic DNA samples has been a fundamental part of human forensic analysis but also in animal genetics aiming at strategic livestock breeding. Most analyses are employing the AMELX/AMELY gene loci on the X and Y chromosomes present in most mammals. We hypothesize that sex-typing in humans is also possible based on the genes...
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