Turner+Syndrome


 * __**Turner Syndrome,**__ **Sandra, Angel, Rowdy**

__**What is Turner Syndrome**__: Turner syndrome is a know gentic disorter that only happens in girls that have x chromosomes from sexual intercrores that happens when one of the parents chromosomes misses the the cell, what happens to the girl is depended on what part of the x chromosome is missing. The diesae was discribed in 1938 by Dr. Henry Turner but was not discoverd until 1959 this diesae has affected more then 2,500 females that have born. The most typical symtoms are girls that are shorter then others and also the girls with turner syndrome don't mature sexually as they grow. This syndrome can affect the heart and kindeys. Turner syndrome is caused by a cell that fails to have the right x chromsomes to the embroid. The place that this could occur would in the father sperm or mother cell but mostly it occurs in the father sperm cell their is no know reason why it happens in the father sperm but about 50% comes from monosomy x 40% comes from mosaic that is part of turner syndrome.

__**Can turner syndrome be cure or prevented?**__ turner syndrome doesnt have a main cure but it has some treatments such as growth hormone and estrogen replacement. Growth hormone helps by making the person grow their normal zise. growth hormone is i kind of cure that makes you grow. If you have turner syndrome this will help you get to your normal size if you are going trough the shrinking of turner syndrome. estrogen replacement is a medical admnistration of estrogen and may include the use of prigestins. It replaces hormones wich the ovaries no longer produce through natural or surgical. turner syndrome is past trough the sexual intercores.

__**what are the effects of turner syndrome the risk parents of a daughtter with turner syndrome having another daughter with turner sydrome ?**__ In each subsequent pregnancy, the chance of having another baby with turner syndrome would not be increased over the maternal age risk for chromosome abnormalities that affect every woman.Some problems that your child may have is ovaries dont develop normally or function fully. Anothers problems are that they will not go through purbity, and they excess skin folds around neck and they probably can have ear infection so they can cause hearing lost. more problems that they are is they broad chest with widely spaced nipples and turner syndrome is not mental retarted feature.

__**WorkCited**__: these are the web sites we used 1. goggle, 2.http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/UVAHealth/peds_genetics/turner.cfm, 3.

__**Questions**__: 1. what is a treatment for turner syndrome? 2. who is affected by the disease? 3. Who discoverd turner Syndrome, and when? 4. How is turner syndrome pased on?