Biology of DSDs (2) Turner Syndrome

Turner syndrome is a sex chromosome condition in females where only one X chromosome is present and the other X chromosome is missing or altered. The missing or altered X chromosome affects development before and after birth, most often leaving affected females with a loss of ovarian function and mild to serious physical differences.

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References and additional reading:
[1] NIH. (2020). Turner Syndrome. Genetics Home Reference, National Library of Medicine.
[2] Danielsson, K. (2020). Turner syndrome (monosomy X) and pregnancy loss. Verywellfamily.
[3] LOCAH. (2018). The intersex masterpost. Medium.
[4] Witchel, S. (2018). Disorders of sex development. Best Practice and Research in Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 48, 3.
[5] TSF. (2019). Diagnosing Turner Syndrome. Turner Syndrome Foundation.
[7] Bondy, C. (2007). Care of Girls and Women with Turner Syndrome. Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, 92(1), 10-25.
[8] Fuchs, M., et al. (2019). Long‐Term Outcomes in Patients With Turner Syndrome A 68‐Year Follow‐Up. Journal of the American Heart Association, 8(11).

For more information about Turner syndrome and various support groups:

[soulfoodie]

Thanks for this- a very useful overview of Turner Syndrome -:from a woman with Turner Syndrome

[EllaAndrophobia]

I NEED THE NEXT INSTALLMENT!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[lazysingledaisybronwyn]

In trying to understand what the first female "sacrifice" to start the human race must have gone through, I wonder what she went through.

Cardiac problems.
Kidney problems.
Speech problems.

Anti-Malarian hormone?

How did that come to be?

[naamisaaan]

Can Turner syndrome or a condition like it develop because of a defective Y chromosome instead of a defective or missing X chromosome?

[TagSpamCop]

Hearing how severely these conditions impact people's lives, it's absolutely infuriating that gender ideologists would use them as pawns in their stupid postmodern games.

[leemoore]

Good video. One question though. There are billions of people in the world struggling on with one X chromosome, and they seem to get along fine. They also have a Y chromosome, but we are advised that most of that has to do with sexual development, so that stuff would be of no use to a single X karotype woman. There are some pseudoautsomal regions on the Y, of course. But are they that critical to survival ?

It seems odd that males can struggle by with a single X. assisted by a single Y, while 99% of females wih a single X don't make it as far as birth, and the few that do suffer from a serious disability.

What's that little Y doing to help males survive with their single X, aside from its sex determining function ?