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A large Yq deletion involving both the fluorescent and part of the non-fluorescent segment in a 36-year-old phenotypic normal male is presented. His short stature and aspermia gives strong support, after a complete review of the literature, to the existence of factors involved in the control of both characteristics in the non-fluorescent segment of the long arm of chromosome Y, distally within band 11.
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Yunis, E., García-Conti, F.L., Torres de Caballero, O.M. et al. Yq deletion, aspermia, and short stature. Hum Genet 39, 117–122 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273161
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