The disease I'm researching is Turner's Syndrome, this disease was discovered during the year of 1951. If women have Turner's Syndrome, the symptoms are:
- Shorter then regular women
- They cannot conceive children because their ovaries don't work.
- They have extra skin on their neck.
- Swelling on hands and feet
- Heart effects
- and Kidney problems
The treatments for this disease is therapy. Therapy may not always work but, it helps mildly. The mortality of this disease is they may live until the age of 17, it would be a miracle if they lived longer then the age of 17. Only one out of 2,500 women are born with Turner's Syndrome world wide. Women are most vulnerable to Turner's Syndrome, men cannot get this disease.What happens at the "MOLECULAR" level with the genes that cause the disease are that people with Turner's Syndrome are born with one X- Chromosome. Regular females are born with two X- Chromosomes. If you have Turner's Syndrome that means you were born with one X- Chromosome. Another treatment is not possible because Turner's Syndrome is hard to fight.
What I think about this syndrome is that women who have it are unfortunate because they don't live a very long life. Also, their family members and themselves are suffering because they have to worry about themselves and the person with Turner's Syndrome. All in all, I feel very bad for people who have Turner's Syndrome because they are going through a lot.
kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/genetic/turner.html
www.medicinenet.com/turner_syndrome/article.htm
turners.nichd.nih.gov/
learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/disorders/whataregd/turner/
rarediseases.about.com/cs/turnersyndrome/a/020803.htm
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