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What is Turner's Syndrome?
Turner's Syndrome is a common disease in which all or part of one sex chromosome is absent. Results in infertility and short stature later on in life.
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Who gets the disease?
Turner's Sundrome affects only girls. |
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Treatments
Turner's Syndrome can be treated with regular injections of human growth hormone. At an older age, orally transferred replacement sex hormones will promote pubertal development. Invitro fertilization can allow for a Turner's Syndrome woman to have children. |
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Bonus option!!
Find out if Turner's Syndrome is autosomal dominant or recessive, cite sources and receive a bonus point! |
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