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Turner Syndrome

**Description: ** Turner Syndrome is a disorder that only develops in females. This disorder affects genes that deal with growth and sexual development. When a female is born with this disorder, they are shorter than the average person and develop unusual sexual characteristics.

**Inheritance: ** This disorder is inherited by a missing X chromosome. The chromosome can be incomplete or simply missing.

*** A female inherits Turner Syndrome when the twenty-third chromosome does not have it's pair.***

**Symptoms: ** When a female inherits Turner Syndrome, they are not only shorter than normal but they also don’t begin puberty on time. The females have an appearance of a short, stocky, webbed neck, and turner out feet body. They also have medical symptoms like heart defects, kidney defects, and high-blood pressure and are unable to reproduce.

**Diagnosis: ** Half of the females that inherit this disorder are diagnosed within the first couple months of life. The way a doctor knows that a child has Turner Syndrome are the swelling of their hands and feet or some kind of heart defect. Some other people discover they have Turner Syndrome when they are a teenager because they are not growing. Sometimes doctors diagnose patients after taking blood samples. There are a few different way that people can be diagnosed with Turner Syndrome.

**Treatment: ** This disease can be treated by hormone replacement therapy, low doses of androgens, or estrogen, which are all types of hormones.

**Interesting Facts: ** media type="custom" key="9658702" width="150" height="150" 1) The average height of an untreated woman with Turner Syndrome is four foot, eight inches. 2) Turner syndrome is named after Dr. Henry Turner, who published a report describing the disorder in 1938.

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