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Characterisation of eight cattle with Swyer syndrome by whole-genome sequencing.
Animal genetics - 1 Apr 2023
Berry Donagh P, Herman Emily K, Carthy Tara R, Jennings Rebecca, Bandi-Kenari Nahid, O'Connor Rebecca E, Mee John F, O'Donovan Jim, Mathews Daragh, Stothard Paul
Abstract excerpt
Swyer syndrome is where an individual has the karyotype of a typical male yet is phenotypically a female. The lack of a (functional) SRY gene located on the Y-chromosome is implicated in some cases of the Swyer syndrome, although many Swyer individuals with an apparently fully functional SRY gene have also been documented. The present study undertook whole genome sequence analyses of eight cattle with suspected...
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