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Androgen Insensitivity syndrome

Inheritance and prenatal diagnosis

Inheritance patterns
X-linked recessive

Prenatal diagnosis
This is possible, through chorionic villus sampling at ten to twelve weeks and/or amniocentesis at about sixteen weeks, but seldom indicated.

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Medical text written May 1997 by Dr R Stanhope. Last reviewed October 2005 by Dr R Stanhope, Consultant Paediatric Endocrinologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK.

 

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