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Homosexuality and genetic sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

Michael Pritchard
Michael Pritchard*
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Maudsley Hospital, London, S.E.5
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It is more than twenty years since Lang advanced the hypothesis that some male homosexuals are sex intergrades with male morphological sex characteristics but a female chromosomal pattern (Lang, 1940). Is there now sufficient evidence to prove or disprove the theory? The purpose of this paper is to review the evidence to date, and to present the results of an investigation of the somatic chromosomes in a small series of male homosexuals.

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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 108 , Issue 456 , September 1962 , pp. 616 - 623
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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