A healthy, female chimera with 46,XX/46,XY Karyotype

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 97-102

  Binkhorst, Mathijs ^a   de Leeuw, Nicole ^a   Otten, Barto J ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Chimerism; Cytogenetics; Disorders of sex development; Prenatal diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CELL LINE; CHIMERA; CHORION VILLUS SAMPLING; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENDER; GENOTYPE; GONAD DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE 46,XX; KARYOTYPE 46,XY; KARYOTYPING; NEWBORN; OOCYTE DEVELOPMENT; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; TESTIS DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 61849156701     PISSN: 0334018X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/JPEM.2009.22.1.97     Document Type: Article

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