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Turners syndrome is a genetic condition characterized by the absence of

total or partial of the X chromosome. This syndrome is caused by several


cytogenetic variants: cells with 45 chromosomes (sexual chromosomes ->
XO) in the 53% of times, cells with 45 (sexual chromosomes -> XO) and with
46 chromosomes (sexual chromosomes -> XX) in the 15% of times, cells
with 45 chromosomes (sexual chromosomes -> XO) and 46 chromosomes
(sexual chromosomes -> XY) in the 5% of times, etc.
The moisacism is explained by a non-disjunction in the mitotic division that
can generate one type of cell patches made of cells with abnormal
chromosomes and another type of cell patches made of cells that have a
normal karyotype.
This type of non-disjunction leads to the existence of regions with different
chromosomic constitution.
Thats why a 45,XO/ 46,XX would be explained because an X chromosome
can be lost in an early stage after the fertilization of an XX embryo.
The presence of XO/XY mosaicism can be caused by an error produced on
embryo stages as mitotic errors leading some cells to conserve XY and some
others as XO, resulting on a mosaicism that causes the Turners syndrome.

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