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Colour Vision Studies and the X-Chromosome Constitution of Patients with Klinefelter's Syndrome

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WE wish to report confirmation of the presence of two X-chromosomes in males with Klinefelter's syndrome and female nuclear sex and their presumptive ‘sex-reversal’.

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  1. Guy's Hospital, London

    P. E. POLANI & P. M. F. BISHOP

  2. Western Infirmary, Glasgow

    B. LENNOX, M. A. FERGUSON-SMITH & J. S. S. STEWART

  3. Kinderspital, Zurich

    A. PRADER

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POLANI, P., BISHOP, P., LENNOX, B. et al. Colour Vision Studies and the X-Chromosome Constitution of Patients with Klinefelter's Syndrome. Nature 182, 1092–1093 (1958). https://doi.org/10.1038/1821092a0

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