Essay: Gender verification of female athletes

Lancet

Volumn 366, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Genel, Myron ^a   Ljungqvist, Arne ^b,c,d  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Swedish Sports Confederation   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^d Academic Medical Center VU University Medical Center

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN INSENSITIVITY SYNDROME; ATHLETE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; COMPETITION; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; FEMININITY; GENETIC DISORDER; HUMAN; KLINEFELTER SYNDROME; LABORATORY TEST; ORAL BIOPSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DETERMINATION; SHORT SURVEY; SPORT; X CHROMOSOME;

EID: 29044441457     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(05)67843-9     Document Type: Article

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4. A de la Chapelle The use and misuse of sex chromatin screening for “gender identification” of female athletes JAMA 256 1986 1920 1923