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Androgen Insensitivity syndrome
Background
Androgen Insensitivity syndrome: Complete Androgen Insensitivity syndrome (CAIS); Partial Androgen Insensitivity syndrome (PAIS); Androgen Resistance syndrome; Testicular Feminisation syndrome; Feminising Testes syndrome; Male Pseudo-hermaphroditism; Goldberg-Maxwell syndrome (CAIS); Morris's syndrome (CAIS); Lub's syndrome (PAIS); Reifenstein syndrome (PAIS); Gilbert-Dreyfus syndrome (PAIS)
Normally, humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes. On fertilisation, the chromosomes combine to give a total of 46 (23 pairs). A female usually has an XX pair of sex chromosomes and a man an XY pair. The female affected by Androgen Insensitivity syndrome (AIS) has an XY pair of sex chromosomes.
