Recognition of the Y chromosome in Turner syndrome using peripheral blood or oral mucosa tissue

• Main Authors: Lene Garcia Barbosa (Author), Adriana Aparecida Siviero-Miachon (Author), Maria Anunciação Souza (Author), Angela Maria Spinola-Castro (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Korean Society of Pediatric Endocrinology, 2021-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Purpose Turner syndrome is defined as total or partial loss of the second sex chromosome in a phenotypically female patient. Due to the possibility of hidden mosaicism of fragments of the Y chromosome and development of gonadoblastoma, we evaluated the presence of such fragments in 2 tissues with di...