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XY Female

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XY females are completely sex-reversed individuals who are phenotypically females with 46,XY karyotype, failure to develop secondary sex characteristics, amenorrhea, and “streak gonads.”

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Chen, H. (2017). XY Female. In: Atlas of Genetic Diagnosis and Counseling. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2401-1_254

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