• DOI:10.1097/GIM.0b013e31802cffcf
Corpus ID: 13489512

We used to call them hermaphrodites

@article{Vilain2007WeUT,
  title={We used to call them hermaphrodites},
  author={E. Vilain and J. Achermann and E. Eugster and V. Harley and Y. Morel and J. Wilson and O. Hiort},
  journal={Genetics in Medicine},
  year={2007},
  volume={9},
  pages={65-66}
}

E. Vilain, J. Achermann, +4 authors O. Hiort

Published 2007

Biology, Medicine

Genetics in Medicine

Sex is just as complicated as humans are. What seems a rather straightforward concept—with an unequivocal answer to the proverbial delivery room question, “Is it a boy or a girl?”—is in reality full of nuances and complexities, just like any human trait. From a biological standpoint, the appearance of the external genitalia is only one parameter among many, including chromosomal constitution, the sequence of sex-determining genes, gonadal structure, the profile of gonadal hormones, and the… CONTINUE READING

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