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A dosage sensitive locus at chromosome Xp21 is involved in male to female sex reversal.
Nature genetics - 1 Aug 1994
Bardoni B, Zanaria E, Guioli S, Floridia G, Worley K C, Tonini G, Ferrante E, Chiumello G, McCabe E R, Fraccaro M
Abstract excerpt
Male to female sex reversal has been observed in individuals with duplications of the short arm of the X chromosome. Here we demonstrate that sex reversal results from the presence of two active copies of an Xp locus rather than from its rearrangement and that alterations at this locus constitute one of the causes of sex reversal in individuals with a normal 46,XY karyotype. We have named this locus DSS (Dosage...
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