What are the Symptoms of Turner Syndrome?
People how have Turner Syndrome often show Symptoms of:
- Being Shorter than the average person, the average height of a Turner Syndrome victim being 4 feet 8 inches.
- Late start at puberty
- Ovaries, including sex hormones such as estrogen and progesterone don't develop properly
- Appearance may be stocky
- Arms often turn out at the elbow
- Hair lines are low
- Jaw line is receding
- Neck is short and webbed
But who is at risk of Turner Syndrome?
Females are primarily diagnosed with Turner Syndrome. The reason being that females have two X chromosomes, one is received from the mother and the other from the father. When a Nondisjunction, a sex cell that failed to separate during egg formation or in other words an abnormal egg, pares with a normal sperm cell missing or incomplete sex chromosomes are formed. Males, on the other hand, are not likely to possess Turner Syndrome due to the fact that they have both an X and Y chromosome.