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Will Turner’s syndrome be able to be mitigated in the next 10 years? DIAGNOSIS AND OCCURANCE Turner’s syndrome is a chromosomal condition which occurs in women due to an incomplete meiotic division. It results in the sex chromosome being incomplete and results in an ‘XO’ in the 23rd pair instead of the regular ‘XX’. This results in the birth of a female with Turner’s syndrome – resulting in a short stature, infertility, heart defects and learning disabilities. As Turner’s syndrome is due to an…

different disabilities as scary, evil, or dangerous. A great example of this is the popular show of American Horror Story. This show has a character or many characters that have disabilities within every season. The first season showed a child who has down syndrome and they showed her as scary, socially inept, and someone who should wish to be a normal girl. For example, in one of the episodes they showed the character wishing to be a beautiful, normal girl for Halloween. Her mom desired to…

Down Syndrome is the most prevalent and recognizable chromosomal abnormality in live born children, with a current prevalence of 2.8 out of 1000 children born with the genetic disorder [1]. In 1866, John Langdon Down termed the condition “mongolism” before it was later termed Down syndrome in honor of his discovery. Nearly a century later, geneticists Jerome Lejeune and Patricia Jacobs reported the chromosomal abnormality for the first time in humans to be secondary to a trisomy of chromosome 21…

Diseases And Disorders Research Paper Down syndrome is a disorder of a person's chromosomes that cause mild to severe physical and mental disabilities. People are affected from birth and until death. Noticeable physical problems include a small skull , a narrowed or flat nose bridge, poor muscle tone, and folds beneath the eyes. It occurs in about one in every 700 births. Nearly 1600 kids are born with down syndrome in the united states. Most people that have down syndrome have increased…

Introduction Children with disabilities experience a lot of different environments that help them develop appropriately. In some cases, some children with disabilities have been clinically diagnosed with their disability; however, there are some that are in the beginning process of discovering what disability they have. I had the opportunity to interview two family members of a disabled child named Tanea Pittman. I learned and discussed their involvement with her at home and school. As well…

In just 9 months a single cell, no bigger than a speck, of dust transforms into the most sophisticated organism on the plane, a human fetus. It all begins with the moment of fertilization, but days after it can take the most unexpected turn. Any tiny change or mutation in a gene can cause genetic disorders once you are born. It’s possible to inherit a gene mutation from one or both parents or, a condition caused by a DNA abnormality. There are so many rare conditions that are still being…

Napoleon’s most upsetting defeat came at Waterloo. Or it may have occurred eight years earlier, after the French emperor was attacked by a bunch of rabbits. There are a couple versions of this story. In July 1807, Napoleon signed the Treaties of Tilsit which ended the war between the French and Russia Looking to celebrate, the French proposed a rabbit hunt, asking Chief of Staff Alexandre Berthier to make it happen. Berthier arranged an outdoor rabbit hunt and invited some of the…

estimated 286,000 being children/young people (Bild, 2017). One in every thousand babies born in the United Kingdom will be born with the condition, Downs Syndrome. In the UK alone, 60,000 people live with the condition. There are various learning difficulties associated with Downs Syndrome. However, young people with learning disabilities, including Downs Syndrome, are at a higher risk of sexual exploitation than non-disabled individuals due to intellectual…

The term Trisomy describes the presence of an additional chromosome. Trisomy 13 is a chromosomal disorder that affects either all or a portion of the 13th chromosome. Each person is given a set of chromosomes, one from mom and the other from dad. During embryo development, the 13th chromosome takes on an additional set from either parent. This results in a set of three chromosomes. The severity of the abnormality associated with Trisomy 13 depends on the specific location and percentage…

Congenital malformations is a physical defect present at birth, irrespective of whether the defect is caused by a genetic factor or by events existing before or at birth. In a malformation, the development of a structure is arrested, delayed or misdirected early in embryonic life and the effect is permanent. 1 For centuries, skeletal deformities have fascinated many civilizations. For example, the Egyptian God path was depicted as a short limbed dwarf and metabolic bone disorders were recognised…