Yq deletion, aspermia, and short stature
✍ Scribed by Emilio Yunis; Francisco L. García-Conti; Olga María Torres de Caballero; Alejandro Giraldo
- Book ID
- 104696707
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1977
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 341 KB
- Volume
- 39
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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✦ Synopsis
A large Yq deletion involving both the fluorescent and part of the non-fluorescent segment in a 36-year-old phenotypic normal male is presented. His short stature and aspermia gives strong support, after a complete review of the literature, to the existence of factors involved in the control of both characteristics in the non-fluorescent segment of the long arm of chromosome Y, distally within band 11.
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