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THE presence of sex-chromatin in cell nuclei is being noted in an ever-increasing number of tissues from human and animal females1–9. Popular interest was roused recently by a report in Nature10 describing a method of antenatal sex determination. The method depends on the presence or absence of sex-chromatin in desquamated cells isolated from amniotic fluid.
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GLENISTER, T. Determination of Sex in Early Human Embryos. Nature 177, 1135–1136 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/1771135a0
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