Turner Syndrome is a chromosomal disorder in girls where one of the two X sex chromosomes is either partially or completely missing. Some girls born with this condition have a heart defect. On Tuesday ...

CALEDONIA — When Veronica Rakel was born, her family couldn’t tell by looking at the preemie-sized newborn that she already won a major battle: she survived long enough to be born. “Ninety-nine ...

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho woman founded the Idaho Turner Foundation last summer when she discovered her daughter had the condition and there weren't many resources for them to turn to in the Gem State.

Doctors treating babies born with Turner syndrome need to look for heart rhythm abnormalities, in addition to the usual heart problems of high blood pressure or left-sided structural heart defects, ...

A 30-month-old girl is presented with a deletion of the X chromosome at q 22 when examined by G- and Q-banding techniques. She exhibited dystrophia, mental and motor retardation, shortened extremities ...

I’m your typical college student, except for my genes. When I was diagnosed with Turner syndrome, nobody told me that my genetic disorder would prevent me from getting into the best writing school in ...

Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal genetic test came back last August. The test suggested that her daughter, whom she and her husband planned to name ...

Researchers have identified some of the earliest known cases of sex-chromosome syndromes — in five ancient humans. “It’s quite interesting to think that these people existed throughout human history ...