Article
[Turner syndrome and mosaicism].
Bulletin de l'Academie nationale de medecine - 1 Jan 2003
Battin Jacques
Abstract excerpt
Turner's syndrome is a gonadosomatic dysgenesis of female phenotype due to a more or less complete monosomy of one of the X chromosomes leading to a haploinsufficiency of the development genes situated at the level of the pseudoautosomal region of the gonosomes. Further experience of the karyotype showed a preponderance of mosaics and considerable variability of Turner's phenotype in proportion to the number of...
Topics
- Abnormalities, Multiple
- Chromosomes, Human, X
- Diseases in Twins
- Dosage Compensation, Genetic
- Female
- Growth Disorders
- Humans
- Intellectual Disability
- Mosaicism
- Organ Specificity
- Phenotype
- Turner Syndrome
- Twins, Monozygotic
