(Females have two X chromosomes, while males have ... your aortic valve has two flaps or cusps instead of three. Bone problems. Turner syndrome may increase your risk of bone diseases such as ...

The X contains more genes related to brain function than does any other chromosome. “The X chromosome may be a treasure trove ...

Created with Sketch. Also known as XXY syndrome, this rare condition occurs when male babies are born with an extra X chromosome. These individuals tend to have smaller genitalia, extreme shyness ...

Researchers provided a long-awaited and rare genetic diagnosis in a child with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a type of ...

“We have thought that the X chromosome had something to do with the autoimmune ... They collected blood from healthy people and people with three different autoimmune conditions: dermatomyositis, ...

In these cases, Down syndrome is caused by a translocation of chromosomes 15 and 21 (Figure 3), in which the long arms of two acrocentric chromosomes are translocated to produce a single long ...

Patients with Klinefelter and triple X syndromes show an increased prevalence of SLE and Sjögren disease, likely due to the synergistic interaction of the extra X chromosomes.

Silencing might also explain, in part, why genetic twins are not phenotypically identical. In addition, epigenetics is important for X-chromosome ... Disrupting any of the three systems that ...

Female mammals typically carry two X chromosomes — one from each parent ... so they could look at which genes were switched on. Three genes were silenced on the maternal X — Sash3, Tlr7 ...