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We report a case of a female infant with a de novo deletion of the short arm of chromosome 9, sex reversal, and an apparently intact SRY gene. Sex reversal has been reported in a number of subjects with a normal Y chromosome and a deletion of the terminal segment of the short arm of chromosome 9. The factors controlling early development of the male testes are unknown. There are likely to be many genes involved and we present additional evidence that one of these is situated on the end of the short arm of chromosome 9.
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- C P Bennett
- Department of Clinical Genetics, Leeds General Infirmary, UK
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Ogata T, Matsuo N. Comparison of adult height between patients with XX and XY gonadal dysgenesis: support for a Y specific growth gene(s). J Med Genet 1992; 29:539-41. [PMID: 1518022 PMCID: PMC1016057 DOI: 10.1136/jmg.29.8.539] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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Adult height was compared between published cases of patients with XX gonadal dysgenesis (XXGD) and those with XY gonadal dysgenesis (XYGD). The mean adult height of XYGD patients (171.0 cm (SD 7.8), n = 27) was significantly greater than that of XXGD patients (164.4 cm (7.7), n = 27) (p less than 0.01). This finding supports the existence of a Y specific growth gene(s) which promotes statural growth independently of the effects of gonadal sex steroids.
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- T Ogata
- Human Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Imperial Cancer Research Fund, London
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Levilliers J, Quack B, Weissenbach J, Petit C. Exchange of terminal portions of X- and Y-chromosomal short arms in human XY females. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989; 86:2296-300. [PMID: 2928333 PMCID: PMC286899 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.86.7.2296] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Human Y(+) XX maleness has been shown to result from an abnormal terminal Xp-Yp interchange that can occur during paternal meiosis. To test whether human XY females are produced by the same mechanism, we followed the inheritance of paternal pseudoautosomal loci and Xp22.3-specific loci in two XY female patients. Y-specific sequences and the whole pseudoautosomal region of the Y chromosome of their fathers were absent in these patients. However, the entire pseudoautosomal region and the X-specific part of Xp22.3 distal to the STS locus had been inherited from the X chromosome of the respective father. This Xp transfer to Yp was established by in situ hybridization experiments showing an Xp22.3-specific locus on Yp in both cases. Such results demonstrate that an abnormal and terminal X-Y interchange generated the rearranged Y chromosome of these two XY females; they appear to be the true countertype of Y(+) XX males. In these patients, who also display some Turner stigmata, the Y gene(s) involved in this phenotype is (are) localized to interval 1 or 2. If the loss of such gene(s) affects fetal viability, their proximity to TDF would account for the underrepresentation of interchange 46,XY females compared with Y(+) XX males.
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- J Levilliers
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U163, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UA 271, Paris, France
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Six cases of Swyer's syndrome (46,XY pure gonadal dysgenesis) are reported. Three patients, without gonadal tumor, had female H-Y antigen. Three patients, after gonadal tumor ablation, had intermediate H-Y antigen levels. Repeated blood samples were obtained from two siblings. H-Y antigen level in the first sibling, who presented with a gonadoblastoma and underwent a gonadectomy before the H-Y assays, was intermediate, and did not show any significant variation for 21 months. H-Y antigen level in the second sibling showed an increase in the male range, presumably due to the presence of gonadoblastomas. After resection of the tumors, H-Y antigen level became intermediate. These findings suggest a relation between the tumorization potentiality of the gonadal remnants and the H-Y antigen levels in 46,XY pure gonadal dysgenesis.
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Moreira-Filho CA, Wachtel SS. Study of H-Y antigen in abnormal sex determination with monoclonal antibody and an ELISA. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1985; 20:525-34. [PMID: 3993678 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320200313] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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A newly developed enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) has been applied to the study of H-Y antigen in cases of XY, XYY, and X,dicY gonadal dysgenesis, testicular feminization syndrome, XXXXY syndrome, and XX true hermaphroditism. Monoclonal H-Y antibody was absorbed with cells from each of eight patients and from normal male and female controls, and then reacted with a plated antigen source in a system subsuming the addition of biotinylated secondary antibody, avidin-biotin-enzyme complex and substrate, and thereby the generation of a color. Positive absorption decreased the reaction, and this allowed sensitive measurement of H-Y phenotype in an electronic optical density reader. The ELISA obviates many of the technical difficulties encountered in complement-mediated cytotoxicity systems and can be used in the study of clinical cases of aberrant sex determination and in the evaluation of current models of the genetics of sex determination.
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Warner BA, Monsaert RP, Stumpf PG, Kulin HE, Wachtel SS. 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis: is oncogenesis related to H-Y phenotype or breast development? Hum Genet 1985; 69:79-85. [PMID: 3967892 DOI: 10.1007/bf00295534] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Among women with 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis, there is a high incidence of gonadal tumors. Because of evidence of a connection between occurrence of those tumors, H-Y phenotype, and breast development, we surveyed 55 cases of 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis and 12 related cases involving chromosomal and/or skeletal abnormalities. Our survey, including three new cases presented here, indicates that H-Y phenotype but not breast development may be related to the development of the gonadoblastoma-dysgerminoma. Thus among women with 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis, there are H-Y- and H-Y+ classes, but gonadal tumors are found almost exclusively in the H-Y+ class. Yet one of our patients may represent an exception to the association of H-Y+ phenotype and gonadal tumors in this syndrome.
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Boucekkine C, Benmiloud M, Himeur B, Chouiter A, Bachammar M. Absence of H-Y antigen in a case of sporadic pure gonadal dysgenesis. J Endocrinol Invest 1984; 7:225-30. [PMID: 6432892 DOI: 10.1007/bf03348428] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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H-Y activity, endocrine function and gonadal histology were studied in a phenotypic female presenting with features of sporadic 46,XY pure gonadal dysgenesis. H-Y activity was absent, hormonal data revealed a primary ovarian failure with a blunted response of FSH to LHRH; there was no testicular tissue nor microscopic evidence of gonadal tumor in the gonads. The current view on the role of H-Y antigen in the differentiation of the gonads and in the occurrence of gonocytoma is discussed.
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Zenzes MT, Reed TE. Variability in serologically detected male antigen titer and some resulting problems: a critical review. Hum Genet 1984; 66:103-9. [PMID: 6370828 DOI: 10.1007/bf00286583] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023]
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Seroologically detected male antigen" (also called H-Y antigen) was first described in normal male mammals but now appears to occur in normal female mammals as well. "Serologically detected male predominant" (SDMP) antigen is a more appropriate name since the titer in normal males usually exceeds that of normal females. As we show, in each sex there is a considerable inter-individual variability in SDMP antigen titer, and in moderate-to-large size samples the low end of the male range of titers usually coincides with the high end of the female range. Several major problems arise from failure to recognize and/or to deal adequately with this normal variation in SDMP antigen titer. The chief problem is that the "controls" used (often a single individual) may be inadequate and misleading, leading to unjustified designation of samples as "positive", "negative", or even "deviant" ("intermediate", "reduced") for SDMP antigen titer. Other problems include deficiencies in technique and lack of statistical control for test and sample variability. Adequate attention to these problems, especially to the normal variability in SDMP antigen titer, could reduce the contradictions and inconsistencies which have troubled this field.
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Müller U. H-Y antigen and disorders of gonadal development. ERGEBNISSE DER INNEREN MEDIZIN UND KINDERHEILKUNDE 1984; 53:73-101. [PMID: 6389117 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-69841-5_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Sexual Differentiation: Normal and Abnormal. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-153205-5.50015-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Moreira-Filho CA, Frota-Pessoa O, Vianna-Morgante AM, Chu TH, Bisi H, Gollop TR. H-Y antigen generating and receptor systems in abnormal sexual development. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF MEDICAL GENETICS 1982; 13:401-11. [PMID: 7158639 DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320130408] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/23/2023]
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Moreira-Filho CA, Toledo SP, Bagnolli VR, Frota-Pessoa O, Bisi H, Wajntal A. H-Y antigen in Swyer syndrome and the genetics of XY gonadal dysgenesis. Hum Genet 1979; 53:51-6. [PMID: 535902 DOI: 10.1007/bf00289451] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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The H-Y antigen is a plasma membrane antigen involved in the organogenesis of the mammalian testis. Its expression on human cells is determined by a Y-linked gene. Phenotypic females affected by 46,XY gonadal dysgenesis (Swyer's syndrome) can be either H-Y-positive or H-Y-negative. In this paper we report H-Y antigen and endocrine studies in a sibship with three affected sisters. Immunological studies were performed on two of the patients, and a clearly positive expression was detected in both cases. Endocrine studies consisted in the investigation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, which revealed that gonadal hormone insufficiency is the only endocrine abnormality associated with the syndrome. A new genetic interpretation and calssification of XY gonadal dysgenesis is proposed.
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