Sex chromosome abnormality in a patient with transsexualism.
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Sex chromosome abnormality in a patient with transsexualism.
Transsexualism, defined as the wish to change anatomical sex (Benjamin, 1954), is a psychosexual disorder usually not associated with physical abnormalities (Randell, 1970) or abnormality of the sex chromosomes (Money, 1963). In males with Klinefelter's syndrome, where there is an additional X chromosome, cases have been described with coincidental transsexualism (Money, 1963) and transvestism ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1972
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.3.5817.29