PubMed · 9480607
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C Höhn. 1997. [Birth trends in Germany].. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9480607/
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The SRY gene on the short arm of the Y chromosome is necessary for male development. Without SRY, patients with 46,XY karyotype develop as females, fail to achieve normal puberty and have dysgenic gonads and a high incidence of gonadoblastoma. Here we report a female fetus, aborted at 17 weeks of pregnancy, with a non-mosaic 46,X,del(Y)(p11.2).ish del(Y)(SRY-) karyotype diagnosed by classical cytogenetics and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Ovarian tissue was full of oocytes and mitotic figures. FISH studies of ovarian tissues with X and Y centromere probes revealed extensive sex chromosome mosaicism, manifested by loss of the Y chromosome and polysomy of the X chromosome. We propose that X chromosome polysomy is a post-zygotic event that arises to facilitate gonadal differentiation in the absence of all factors necessary for normal gonadal development.
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