Turner syndrome is a rare genetic condition that only affects females. It occurs when one of the two X chromosomes that should be present in a female’s body is missing or does not function properly.

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho woman founded the Idaho Turner Foundation last summer when she discovered her daughter had the condition and there weren't many resources for them to turn to in the Gem State.

Doctor-mom with infertility condition adopts girl from China. Aug. 8, 2013— -- Dr. Catherine Ward-Melver has known since she was young that she would be unable to have children. At 4-foot ...

Turner syndrome is a genetic condition in which a (female) person has only one X chromosome instead of two. Scientists have used a new computational method for precisely measuring sex chromosomes to ...

Liliana Castaneda, with Turner syndrome, was diagnosed with rare clear cell carcinoma of the vagina at 14, unrelated to her condition. Her treatment involved five chemotherapy rounds, external beam ...

Roughly 2,500-year-old DNA has revealed the first ancient person on record with Turner syndrome, a genetic condition in which a person has just a single X chromosome rather than two, a new study finds ...

I receive many emails from twins and their families with important stories to tell. In October 2025, I received a message from a fraternal female twin to say that she had a twin sister with Turner ...

The shaft at the top of the Iron Age deposits (Tony Audsley), where the individual with Turner syndrome was found. First prehistoric person with Turner syndrome identified from the Iron Age Earliest ...

Researchers have developed a new technique to measure the number of chromosomes in ancient genomes more precisely, using it to identify the first prehistoric person with mosaic Turner syndrome ...