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Turners Syndrome **Description: **Turners Syndrome is when a person only has one X chromosome. People who have Turners grow up as a girl. The genes that are affected by turners are the ones that are part of growth and sexual development. That’s why girls who have this are shorter than normal and can’t have children. You can also tell if they have this because the y have different sexual characteristics.

**Inheritance: **This disease is passed down to females threw the X chromosome. This disease is not inherited and is sex liked because it has to due with the sex gene when it doesn’t develop all the way.

**How its passed: **This disease is when a person only developes one X chromosome. It is not known what parent does not give the other X needed.

**Symptoms: **Doctors can usually tell if a person has Turners within the first few months of life. However if as you get older doctors may look for physical symptoms they
 * look for are swelling in the hands and feet
 * Heart defect
 * Stocky appearance
 * Arms where it go’s out at the elbow,
 * Bottom jaws that’s going away
 * Short neck
 * Short hair. Medical symptoms may include
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Kidney problems
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Not being able to have kids
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">High blood pressure. **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Diagnosis: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Doctor will usually look for physical symptoms in the first couple months of life. However others will find out as a teenager because they don’t grow right during puberty. To confirm this doctor will order blood tests.


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">Treatment: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px;">It’s treated with hormone replacement therapy. Others will take growth hormones so they can reach regular height. Other girls will be give small doses of androgens (male hormones.) Also some girl will take estrogen to try and get a normal sexual development.

<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">About 800 girls will find out they have Tuner’s every year. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">The normal height of girls that have Turners and are not being treated or don’t know they have it most likely reach a height of 4 feet 8in. 1/3 of girls with Turners have heart problems. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">A support group is Turners Syndrome Society of the U.S. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">Girl Talk. <span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; line-height: 115%;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13px; line-height: 115%;">[] [] <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">
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 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 115%;">Sources: **<span style="font-family: 'Times','serif'; line-height: 115%;">[|www.turnersydrome.org]
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