Monday 13 October 2014

Trisomy X Aleksa Zujovic

Aleksa Zujovic
Mr. Youell
10.09.2014.
Science
Trisomy X


 After putting all the chromosomes in to one karyotype I have come to a conclusion that the child that is born had Trisomy X or Triple X syndrome. Most of the babies born have two sex chromosomes that determine their gender boys have XY and girls have XX, sometimes the unborn babies can have a extra X or Y chromosome which can lead to the chromosomal disorder know as the Trisomy X or Triple X syndrome. After researching on internet I couldn’t find any articles that manly focuses on this syndrome but I have found a few articles that talk about abortions. These articles can connect with my topic for the blog because one of the main problems that cause parents to have a abortion of a child is because the doctor informs them that their child has a chromosomal disorder. The article that I chose to talk about had its main idea about the protocol that doctors have to follow in order to inform parents that their newborn baby has a disorder. In this blog I am going to try to find some ways that doctors can improve the protocol that they have to follow.

The main idea in the article “Parents 'misled over gene disorders” is that parents get some false information when they are first informed that their newborn baby has a disorder. Which leads to many women deciding to have an abortion without even seeing a genetics expert who can give them more information about the disorder. When I say false information I mean that the information that the doctor gives to the parents might be different form the information that the genetics expert might give them. For example one woman received information that her baby has a Kinefelter’s syndrome. The consequences of this syndrome are that the baby might have a slightly lower IQ. But this woman had an abortion because the doctor has told her that her child would be mentally retarded. That is why I think that the doctors that give this information to the parents should have at least some correct facts about the particular disorder that the newborn baby would have. For example if the newborn baby has the Triple X syndrome he doctor that is going to give the parents the news should tell them that this particular syndrome has a normal impact on the sexual development and is able to reproduce. However some of the consequences that this syndrome has is the lack of learning disabilities and delayed development of speech and language, also the delayed development of daily life skills such as: walking, running and sitting. This can also lead to weak muscle tone and some consequences that don’t sow up always such as the behavioral and emotional difficulties. This is an example of how the doctor should give the information about the disorder. This can change the view of parents on disorder that there child and make them go to the genetics expert who can maybe in the end convince them to have no abortions of their newborn baby. Which brings us to the conclusion that the main problem in the abortions is the false information that is given by the doctors, which I think, should be changed.





5 comments:

  1. Nicely written! You explained the article well, but you could have spent more time explaining Trisomy X. Also, you made a small slip. You said: "...has is the lack of learning disabilities..." instead of "...has a lack of learning abilities..."

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  2. Well written. Your explanation was very good, but I think you lack a bit in the explanation of Trisomy X. But very good in general.

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  3. Well written over all I like how you wrote in detail about the story as we where asked to , you placed the picture in the text well and also had the needed hyperlink

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  4. Nice work. I like how you explained the article in depth and also some about trisomy x. I also like how you didn't use too many complicated words so people understand what you are talking about. If anything you could write more about trisomy x; symptoms, statistics about life expectancy, or how likely a person is to have it, etc.

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  5. Good job. You did a very good job on describing the story. I think you could describe the disorder a little more. Good hyperlinks, maybe add some direct quotes. Good job overall.

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