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X Chromosomes and Turner's Syndrome

If X inactivation occurs anyway, why does only having one X chromosome in females cause Turner's syndrome?
Original post by piglatin.
If X inactivation occurs anyway, why does only having one X chromosome in females cause Turner's syndrome?


It is a chromosomal aberration on just one X chromosome. That is to say that one X chromosome - and thus the genetics - is changed.
Reply 2
Some genes on the inactivated X chromosome escape inactivation.

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