Tuesday, August 19, 2014

Sign and symptoms of syndrome

Most of the disease presents a few symptoms to the sufferer before they had been diagnosed by the doctor, but Swyer syndrome can’t be observed since they was born, or at the early aged and usually the patients grow up as a normal and typical adult female. 

Nevertheless, most of them began to realize the meaning of the disease by the changes of the age and the conflicts between them and their friends from the same gender. 

The sign can be viewed when the patients do not undergo the menstruation and they did not originate at their long time of puberty for female with gene 46 XY, while the male with gene 46 XX, their physical appearance indicates a few signs such wide hips, 30% of breast enlargement and small size of the egg. 

The sufferer also did not own a functional gonad (ovaries or testes), undeveloped and a small size of the uterus and Fallopian tubes.




Figure 3.0: Physical appearance of a male born with female chromosome (gene 46 XX)


Figure 3.0.1: Physical appearance of a male born with female chromosome (gene 46 XX)

The figure 3.0 and 3.0.1 show the symptom and sign for physical appearance male born with female chromosome. Based on both figure, both figure share similar traits for male born with female chromosome and the differences are as stated below:


  1. Mildly impaired IQ( 15 less than average)
  2. Occurrence of Osteoporosis
  3. Wide hips
  4. Long legs and hand 
Figure 3.0.1: Physical appearance of a male born with female chromosome (gene 46 XX)





1 comment:

  1. can you tell me where did you get this pictures from? i would like to use them but thet ask me for the reference

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