Monozygotic twins of different apparent sex.
We report on twins of unlike sex who shared a 45,X/46,X,+mar karyotype. The mar chromosome was found to be Yq- by DNA analysis. Marker studies, including 8 VNTR loci, yielded a probability of monozygosity of 0.99999996.
Yokota
Y
Y
Department of Pediatrics, Sagamihara Kyodo Hospital, Osaka, Japan.
Akane
A
A
Fujino
N
N
Sato
Y
Y
Matsunobu
A
A
Matsuura
N
N
Maeda
T
T
Tadokoro
M
M
Nakahori
Y
Y
Nakagome
Y
Y
D000293:Adolescent; D004200:Diseases in Twins / Q000235:genetics*; D012734:Disorders of Sex Development / Q000235:genetics*; D004392:Dwarfism / Q000235:genetics; D005819:Genetic Markers; D005838:Genotype; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018598:Minisatellite Repeats; D009030:Mosaicism; D010641:Phenotype; D012729:Sex Chromosome Aberrations / Q000235:genetics*; D012733:Sex Differentiation / Q000235:genetics; D014430:Twins, Monozygotic / Q000235:genetics*; D014998:Y Chromosome
D005819:Genetic Markers