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Testicular feminization syndrome


Now more appropriately called the complete androgen insensitivity syndrome, this is a genetic disorder that makes XY fetuses insensitive (unresponsive) to androgens (male hormones). Instead, they are born looking externally like normal girls. Internally, there is a short blind-pouch vagina and no uterus, fallopian tubes or ovaries. There are testes [..]
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Testicular feminization syndrome


A disorder also known as complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome (CAIS). The 46,XY genetic male totally lacks androgen responsiveness in the target organs thus Exhibits a female Phenotype.
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Testicular feminization syndrome


A human condition, inherited as an X-linked recessive, caused by a mutation in a gene coding for the androgen (testosterone) receptor, in which genetical (XY) males develop female secondary sexual cha [..]
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