Created with Sketch. This rare sex chromosome abnormality, also referred to as Jacob’s syndrome, occurs when a male infant is born with an extra Y chromosome. Some symptoms include being tall ...
People who are born female usually have two X chromosomes. Triple X syndrome (also called trisomy X syndrome, XXX syndrome, or 47,XXX) is a rare genetic condition where females inherit an extra X ...
Sometimes though, Wolf-Hirschhorn syndrome is caused when one of the parents has something called a “balanced translocation.” That means two or more of their chromosomes broke and switched ...