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.