Article
Monozygotic twins of different apparent sex.
American journal of medical genetics - 15 Oct 1994
Yokota Y, Akane A, Fujino N, Sato Y, Matsunobu A, Matsuura N, Maeda T, Tadokoro M, Nakahori Y, Nakagome Y
Abstract excerpt
We report on twins of unlike sex who shared a 45,X/46,X,+mar karyotype. The mar chromosome was found to be Yq- by DNA analysis. Marker studies, including 8 VNTR loci, yielded a probability of monozygosity of 0.99999996.
Topics
- Adolescent
- Diseases in Twins
- Disorders of Sex Development
- Dwarfism
- Genetic Markers
- Genotype
- Humans
- Male
- Minisatellite Repeats
- Mosaicism
- Phenotype
- Sex Chromosome Aberrations
- Sex Differentiation
