Chimerism in black southern African patients with true hermaphroditism 46,XX/47XY,+21 and 46,XX/46,XY

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1151, Issue , 2009, Pages 68-76

  Ramsay, M ^a,c   Pfaffenzeller, W ^a   Kotze, E ^a   Bhengu, L ^a   Essop, F ^a   De Ravel, T ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c NATIONAL HEALTH LABORATORY SERVICE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Black southern Africans; Chimerism; True hermaphroditism

Indexed keywords

AMELOGENIN;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHIMERA; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; DNA DETERMINATION; DOWN SYNDROME; GENE LOCUS; HUMAN; HYPOPIGMENTATION; KARYOTYPE; KARYOTYPING; MALE; MOSAICISM; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SRY GENE; TRUE HERMAPHRODITISM; X CHROMOSOME; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 58149148228     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03570.x     Document Type: Article

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