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SMALL testes and aspermia are both characteristic features of Klinefelter's syndrome, and histological examination of the testes usually shows a lack of active spermatogenesis. Biopsies on testes which were still spermatogenous have been reported1–5, however, so we thought it might be possible to study chromosome meiosis in this syndrome, although we could find no previous reference to such work.
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SKAKKEBAEK, N., PHILIP, J. & HAMMEN, R. Meiotic Chromosomes in Klinefelter's Syndrome. Nature 221, 1075–1076 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/2211075a0
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