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A.   Intersexuality
           XY chromosomes                 XX chromosomes
          SRY                           SRY
                    Testicular development         Ovarian development
          TDF                           TDF

            MIF  Testosterone           No MIF and  Estrogens
                                        testosterone
        1                     Normal   2                    Normal
        Genitals Sexual characteristics Psyche  Genitals  Sexual characteristics  Psyche

           XXY chromosomes                X0 chromosomes
          SRY                                                          Intersexuality
                                                  Gonadal dysgenesis
                     Hypotrophic testis
          TDF
             MIF    Testosterone              Sexual hormones
        3                              4                               Plate 9.12
         Klinefelter’s syndrome         Turner’s syndrome
           XY chromosomes                 XX chromosomes + SRY
          SRY                               or XY/X0 mosaic
                                         SRY
                      Ovaries                            Hybrid
          TDF                            TDF             gonads
         No TDF
                      Estrogens                         Estrogens
                                            Testosterone
        5                              6
                                         True
           Mutation of SRY gene          hermaphroditism
           XY chromosomes  Tumors,        XX chromosomes
                         exogenous supply              Enzyme defects of
         Abnormal                                      steroid hormone
                                                       synthesis, tumors,
         testicular                                    exogenous supply
         differentiation
                            Estrogens
        Enzyme defects
                                             Gonadotropins  Testosterone
                       Gonadotropins
        7      Testosterone           Enzyme  Estrogens
                                      defects
         Reductase
         deficiency                    8
         Receptor defects
            Male pseudohermaphroditism    Female pseudohermaphroditism  279

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