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Sex Chromatin Survey of Women in a Special Psychiatric Hospital

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AN increasing interest in a possible association of abnormal behaviour with sex chromosome aberrations has led to a series of studies1 on special populations. There tends to be little or no intellectual impairment in females with single or triple X-chromosomes. These aberrant chromosomal states, however, may be associated with social incompetence, emotional instability and even psychosis2–5.

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  1. Kennedy–Galton Centre, Harperbury Hospital, near St Albans, Hertfordshire

    J. M. BERG & M. A. C. RIDLER

  2. Broadmoor Hospital, Crowthorne, Berkshire

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BERG, J., RIDLER, M. & MCQUAID, A. Sex Chromatin Survey of Women in a Special Psychiatric Hospital. Nature 222, 896–897 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/222896a0

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