The History

In 1938, an endocrinologist named Dr. Henry Turner studied a group of seven female patients that had been referred to him for either dwarfism or lack of sexual development. The patients ranged in age of 15 to 23. He found similarities between the patients and discovered that what had been mistaken for dwarfism was something entirely different.

In England in 1959, Dr. Charles Ford and colleagues discovered a 14 year-old girl with only one X chromosome (45, X). This became the first published report of a female lacking a chromosome.

In 1983, a study examining the use of human growth hormones in Turner patients began. By 1997, the use of most growth hormones had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. By 2004, human growth hormones had become standard procedure after diagnosis of Turner Syndrome.