Nancy Has Recently Undergone a Surgery to Correct Her Webbed

question 31

Multiple Choice

Nancy has recently undergone a surgery to correct her webbed neck.This is one of the many difficulties she faces as a result of being born with a missing X chromosome.She is also very short and overweight.Doctors have informed her parents that hormone therapy is an option to treat her condition,though reproductive sterility is a big possibility.Nancy's school performance is fairly average; she encounters problems with mathematics but has good verbal skills.Which of the following chromosomal disorders does Nancy have?

• A)fragile X syndrome
• B)Klinefelter syndrome
• C)Turner syndrome
• D)Down syndrome

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