Turner syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal genetic abnormality that affects females only and occurs in approximately one-in-two thousand female infants. This disorder is a random error that is a result of a missing set of genes from the arm of a sex chromosome, which we refer to as the, x chromosome. A girl that is diagnosed with this disorder has only one normal x chromosome, rather than having two usual ones (xx). The chromosomes can randomly vary when the baby is conceived in the womb. This disorder can cause a variety of medical problems involving involve growth and sexual development which include infertility, shortage of height, failure of puberty, heart defects, learning disabilities and social adaptation problems.
