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The birth of a new baby is one of the most dramatic events in a family, and the first question is usually “is it a boy or a girl?”

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Al-Salem, A.H. (2017). Disorders of Sexual Development. In: An Illustrated Guide to Pediatric Urology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44182-5_31

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