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Double Barr Bodies in Women in Mental Hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Staffan Olanders
Staffan Olanders*
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Psychiatric Research Centre (University of Göteborg), St. Jörgen's Hospital, Lillhagen, Sweden
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Sex chromatin studies of the mentally defective have revealed a higher than average prevalence of positive sex chromatin among retarded males, and of double Barr bodies among retarded females (Prader et al., 1958; Israelsohn and Taylor, 1961; Maclean et al., 1962; Anderson et al., 1964; and others). It is not yet clear whether mentally defective women also contain an unusually large number with the XO constitution. That mild mental deficiency is a common accompaniment of an XYY constitution in males has been shown recently (Jacobs et al., 1965; Casey et al., 1966; Price et al., 1966). As yet no epidemiological studies have been reported on the XYY constitution.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 113 , Issue 503 , October 1967 , pp. 1097 - 1099
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1967 

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