Freemartinism
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A condition occurring in the female offspring of dizygotic twins (TWIN, DIZYGOTIC) in a mixed-sex pregnancy, usually in CATTLE. Freemartinism can occur in other mammals. When placental fusion between the male and the female FETUSES permits the exchange of fetal cells and fetal hormones, TESTICULAR HORMONES from the male fetus can androgenize the female fetus producing a sterile XX/XY chimeric "female"(CHIMERISM).
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D005611
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C12.706.316.795.124 C13.351.875.253.795.124 C16.131.939.316.795.124 C19.391.119.795.124 C22.196.339
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Carlon N. [Role of HY antigen in human and mammalian gonadal organogenesis (author's transl)]. Pathol Biol (Paris). 1982 Jan; 30(1):49-60.