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Y Chromosomes in Male Psychiatric Patients above 180 cm. Tall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Johannes Nielsen
Johannes Nielsen*
Affiliation:
The Cytogenetic Laboratory, Århus State Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
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All male patients above 180 cm. tall who were resident in the Århus State Hospital on 13 April, 1966, were registered: they numbered 42 out of the total of 440 resident males (8 · 1 per cent.). One patient, a 78-year-old man, died before chromosome analysis was made. Sex-chromatin analysis was made on Feulgenstained buccal smears and chromosome analysis was made on leucocyte cultures according to the method described by Moorhead et al. (1960), slightly modified. Not less than 25 metaphases were counted, at least 15 metaphases with the modal figure and all metaphases with a chromosome number deviating from the modal figures were analysed.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 114 , Issue 517 , December 1968 , pp. 1589 - 1590
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1968 

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