Stephen said, and we'll skip the obligatory sexist joke for now, "There is also a less exotic example of mosaicism than true hermaphroditism. Only one of the pair of X-chromosomes found in every somatic cell of normal women functions, the other being randomly "X- inactivated". This means that a woman is actually a mosaic of two different cell lines each with a different working X-chromosome."
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