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What is Turner's Syndrome?

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Requires a medical diagnosis
Symptoms include short stature, delayed puberty, infertility, heart defects, and certain learning disabilities.
A chromosomal disorder in which a female is born with only one X chromosome
Turner syndrome results from a missing or incomplete sex chromosome.
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Turner's Syndrome:

-random error causes individual to have one X chromosome (the other could be mutated)

-female genitalia (external)

-ovaries do not function; no menstruation

-wide nipples, supes short, wide neck, scoliosis

-diagnosis at birth/ early childhood from heart problems or growth problems

-estrogen at 12,

-bad at math, memory, fingers

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