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Klinefelter Syndrome - Online Paper

Klinefelter Syndrome

For my human genetics research paper, I have selected , or XXY Syndrome to further investigate. At first, I was stuck on what I should choose, but while searching the web for possible diseases or genetic traits, I came across a lot of useful information and many sites involving . There were other diseases that I found that had a lot of information, but they tended to be better known diseases, such as Sickle Cell Anemia and Down Syndrome. I wanted to investigate a disease that I did not know much about, and since I have never heard of before this class, it was a good option. I thought that it was interesting that the syndrome’s symptoms do not appear until about the time of puberty. ...

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usually done on a blood sample showing 47, XXY before birth, through amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling (4). Neither procedure is routinely used to check for XXY though. In later years, a semen exam showing low sperm count, decreased serum testosterone level, increased serum luteinizing hormone or increases serum follice stimulating hormone, can be suspects for a male having (1).
(2) Phenotype Characteristics
Frequency is about 1 in 500 to 1 in 1000 male births, which makes Klinefelter Syndrome a common disease. It does not seem to appear more in one population than another though increased maternal age may be a factor for it’s frequency of occurrence (1).
Males with the XXY sex chromosome arrangement-Klinefelter Syndrome-do not all have the symptoms to the same degree. The full spectrum ranges of severity ranges from no symptoms at all to mental and physical problems, which require on going care (3). The phenotypic (observable) characteristics, or ...

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Added: 3/9/2008 08:18:39 PM
Category: Health & Medicine
Type: Free Paper
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