Sentence examples for sex assignment from inspiring English sources
Finally, controversy is not limited to genetic interventions: there are live debates about whether parents may choose (male) circumcision, clitoridectomy, marrow donation, sex assignment of inter-sexed children, and other surgical interventions (see, e.g., Benatar and Benatar 2003 on circumcision; Parens 2006, on surgically shaping children).
Such treatment prevents genital ambiguity and causes the affected female to be born with normal female genitalia, and thus no confusion of sex assignment.
These overproduced androgens masculinize the female fetus in utero, such that she is born with ambiguous genitalia, making sex assignment in the newborn difficult.
The suit, filed in both state and federal courts, was brought on behalf of the child's adoptive parents and is intended to restrict the practice of medically unnecessary sex assignment surgeries on infants, said lawyers with the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Sex assignment to newborns with ambiguous genitalia is controversial.
For Butler, sex assignment is always in some sense oppressive.
At the LOD 4.3 threshold there were 414 and 1132 trans eQTLs in the females and males, respectively, using the correct sex assignments, with a total of 1546 trans eQTLs and 40 shared in both sexes (Table 5).
Since the number of total trans eQTLs was only decreased by an average of 15% in the permuted datasets compared to the correct sex assignments, it is possible that many of the trans eQTLs are false positives.
All sex assignments could be verified by reference to the proportion of heterozygous SNPs on the X chromosome.
In order to prevent life-threatening adrenal crisis and to help make the appropriate sex assignments in affected female patients, newborn mass screening programs for CAH have been introduced in many countries including Japan [ 3– 5].
To validate the error rates, a permutation test was performed where 10,000 random genomic windows from all scaffolds were used in the same machine learning approach, but where the sex assignments were shuffled.
