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A father's imprint on his daughter's thinking

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Figure 1: Females with Turner's syndrome have only one complete X chromosome, which may have come either from their mother (a) or from their father (c).

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McGuffin, P., Scourfield, J. A father's imprint on his daughter's thinking. Nature 387, 652–653 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/42588

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