Molecular analysis of 9p deletions associated with XY sex reversal: refining the localization of a sex-determining gene to the tip of the chromosome.

We thank Dr. C. P. Bennet, R. Hawkins, and Dr. O. Zuffardi, for providing us with some of the patient material; Giuliana Peverali, for technical support in the microsatellite typing; M. Davies, for technical support in tissue culture; and Drs. C. Farr and E.A. Oakenfull, for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by Welcome grant 035201/Z/92 (to P.N.G and S.G.), EU grant Biomed2-CT960790 (to P.N.G.), a Telethon research fellowship (to S.G.), and an EMBO long-term fellowship (to K.S.).