Guevedoces Syndrome Research Paper
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Every single person receive one color when born, either blue or pink. The person live physically with those colors for their whole entire life. However that reality began to change with the Guevedoces syndrome. This syndrome is found most of all in Dominican Republic. The syndrome cause the babies to be born as girls but when they begin puberty, a male part start to grow.
What happen is that in the first weeks of pregnancy the baby do not have a defined sex yet. During the eighth week of pregnancy the sex hormones start to show. Female have XX and male XY. When the baby boys disinvolve the syndrome, they still genetically boys however they lack the enzyme that transform testosterone into dihydrotestosterone, the hormone that produce