Thursday, August 28, 2008

Women With Male DNA All Female



Eden Atwood is not a freak -- nor is she half-man, half-woman.
But her DNA says she's a man. That's because she has male chromosomes, an X and a Y, instead of two Xs, like most females. It's a disorder of sexual development in the womb called Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome, or AIS. It can be passed down through the mother or occur as a spontaneous mutation.


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http://abcnews.go.com/Health/MedicalMysteries

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