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RECENTLY, I carried out chromosome analyses and sex chromatin determinations on ten patients—five females and five males—between 63 and 91 years old. The organic status of these individuals was variable, and all were ill in some way. Nevertheless, the results obtained in this investigation were reasonably uniform; their chromosomes and Barr bodies appeared normal and manifested the characteristics of the corresponding sex (Table 1).
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KLEISNER DE GALÁN, E. Age and Chromosomes. Nature 211, 1324–1325 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2111324b0
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