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A South African Indian Hermaphrodite


HJ Grace
JKG Light

Abstract

The clinical and genetic features of an intersexual Indian infant, found to be a hermaphrodite, are described. The parents insisted on rearing the child as a male, and so the internal female genitalia and the right ovarian gonad were removed and the left scrotal testis retained. The karyotype was a mosaic of 46, XX and 47, XXY cell lines. The dermatoglyphs were grossly normal.

S. Afr. Med. J., 48, 1349 (1974).

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