Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Turner syndrome (45,X; TS) and Klinefelter syndrome (47,XXY; KS) present with a range of clinical features due to copy number aberrations of the X chromosome. The underlying genetics of these syndromes have revealed karyotype-dependent transcription and methylation patterns, and implicated genes that escape X chromosome inactivation (XCI). Alterations in the expression pattern of non-coding RNAs has previously been reported in TS and KS, yet the landscape of circul...

Background: Studies have shown that the overall risk of cancer is not increased in Turner syndrome (TS). However, the pattern of cancer occurrence may be different than in the background population.Aim: To describe the cancer morbidity pattern in TS.Design: Nationwide epidemiological study using Danish registries on morbidity.Methods: 1,156 Females with TS diagnosed during 1960–2014 were identified using...