Turner syndrome
chromosomal variation where a person is born with a 45X chromosome pattern rather than the typical 46XX
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Summary
Turner syndrome is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17,409 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Henry Turner[3]
- Instance of: intersex variation[4]
- Named after: Henry Turner[5]
- Subclass of: gonadal dysgenesis[6], X chromosome number anomaly with female phenotype[7], disease[8]
- Commons category: Turner syndrome[9]
- Facet of: women's health[10]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C26900[11], C85210[12], C34434[13]
- Different from: monosomy X[14]
- Health specialty: medical genetics[15]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_3491[16], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:3491[17], http://www.orpha.net/ORDO/Orphanet_881[18]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[19], gender gap on Dutch Wikipedia[20]
Why It Matters
Turner syndrome has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] It is known by 83 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]