Risk analyses for the cognitive phenotype in Turner's syndrome: evidence of familial influence as a decisive factor.

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The interindividual varying cognitive performance in female patients with Turner's syndrome has usually been attributed to the interindividual varying mosaicism with a consecutive variable loss of X-chromosome DNA or to secondary risk factors such as estrogen deficiency owing to ovarian failure. The aim of our study was to determine the specific impact of X chromosome-related features and associated risk factors,...

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