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Sex Chromatin Anomaly in Chinese Females: Psychiatric Characteristics of XXX

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Ming T. Tsuang*
Affiliation:
University of Iowa College of Medicine, 500 Newton Road, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, U.S.A.

Extract

The development of techniques for studying sex chromatin from oral mucosa (Moore and Barr, 1955; Marberger at al., 1955), and chromosomes from peripheral blood (Moorhead et al., 1960), has made it possible to undertake population surveys to identify individuals with abnormal sex chromosomes. The present knowledge of psychiatric effects of the sex chromosome abnormalities has been derived mainly from comparing their frequency in the psychiatric population with that in the general population.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1974 

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