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Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome
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- Kolkata woman found with rare disorder ‘Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome’
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- It is a condition in which a person is born genetically male, but has all physical traits of a woman.
- Starting from her voice, developed breasts, normal external genitalia, everything is that of a woman.
- However, uterus and ovaries have been absent since birth. She has also never experienced menstruation
- Karyotyping test revealed that her chromosome complement was ‘XY’ and not ‘XX’, as found in a woman.
- Clinical examinations found out she has testicles inside her body.
- she was diagnosed with testicular cancer which is called seminoma