TY - JOUR AU1 - JACOBS, PATRICIA.A. AB - STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES OF THE SEX CHROMOSOMES Patricia A. Jacobs identified in mosaics in whom there is a 45,X cell line and a cell line with two sex chromosomes one of which is abnormal. In these latter circumstances it is difficult if not impossible to decide to what extent the observed phenotypic abnormalities reflect the effects of the abnormal chromosome. Furthermore, STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES OF it is sometimes impossible to decide whether the abnormal chromosome consists of X or Y material and even occasionally THE SEX CHROMOSOMES whether it is derived from a sex chromosome or an autosome. PATRICIA A. JACOBS D.Sc. a. The X Chromosome Medical Research Council The identification of a structurally abnormal X chromosome Clinical and Population Cytogenetics Research Unit is usually relatively easy on the basis of evidence from sex- Western General Hospital, Edinburgh chromatin observations, autoradiographic studies and the clinical condition of the patient. In all individuals with a 1 Problems in the identification of structurally abnormal structurally abnormal X chromosome, who have been ade- sex chromosomes quately investigated, it has been shown that the size of the a The X chromosome sex-chromatin body is directly correlated with the size of the ab- b The Y TI - STRUCTURAL ABNORMALITIES OF THE SEX CHROMOSOMES JF - British Medical Bulletin DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bmb.a070676 DA - 1969-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/structural-abnormalities-of-the-sex-chromosomes-8ta0tWveqh SP - 94 EP - 98 VL - 25 IS - 1 DP - DeepDyve ER -