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Apparent Male Gender Identity in a Patient with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome

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  1. Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, 110029, India

    Bindu Kulshreshtha, Marumudi Eunice & Ariachery C. Ammini

  2. Pediatric Endocrine Unit and the Hormones Laboratory of the University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier Cedex, France

    Pascal Philibert, Françoise Audran, Françoise Paris & Charles Sultan

  3. Department of Psychiatry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Ansari Nagar, New Delhi, India

    Sudhir K. Khandelwal & Manju Mehta

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Kulshreshtha, B., Philibert, P., Eunice, M. et al. Apparent Male Gender Identity in a Patient with Complete Androgen Insensitivity Syndrome. Arch Sex Behav 38, 873–875 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-009-9526-2

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