title: [Sex chromatin in a population of patients of 2 psychiatric hospitals].
abstract: The purposes of the present study were, first, to determine the proportion of hospitalized psychiatric patients with sex chromatin aberrations and, second, to map the frequency of cells containing Barr bodies as a function of the age of patient. Of the 531 male patients studied, 0.7 per cent contained one or more Barr bodies; 0.5 per cent of the 587 female patients analyzed gave evidence of sex chromatin anomalies. No correlation could be demonstrated between the frequency of cells with Barr bodies and the age of the patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000235:genetics*; D012728:Sex Chromatin
vernacular_title: Estudio de la cromatina sexual en una población de pacientes de dos hospitales psiquiátricos.