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Turner's Syndrome
5 Dec 1996
Abstract excerpt
Currently, there are 50,000 to 75,000 girls and women with Turner's syndrome in the United States alone. Turner's syndrome, first described in 1938,1 is the most common sex-chromosome abnormality in females, affecting an estimated 3 percent of all females conceived. However, the frequency among live-born female infants is only 1 in 1500 to 1 in 2500, and as many as 15 percent of spontaneous miscarriages have a...
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