We describe a girl with Turner syndrome, a genetic disorder of the X chromosome in a phenotypic female at increased risk of autoimmune and immunological diseases, who developed Kawasaki disease at the age of four years. Given the possible relationship between these two disorders, we recommend suspecting Kawasaki disease in patients with Turner syndrome who present with persistent fever of unkno...

Strains from nature have been widely used in experimental and evolutionary studies (reviewed by Perkins and Turner 1988, Turner et al. 2001), most recently for creating phylogenetic trees which provide information on speciation (Dettman et al. 2003). Natural populations have usually been sampled by obtaining conidia from visible colonies on burned vegetation, mostly in tropical or subtropical r...

Title Page Not included in page count. Title: Parent Involvement and Child Development: First-Year Results from a SchoolRandomized Trial in Latino Communities Author(s): Adam Gamoran, Ruth López Turley, Alyn Turner, and Rachel Fish

Systemic hypertension, ischemic heart disease, and stroke are the major factors that reduce lifespan in Turner syndrome. Importantly, high blood pressure (BP) is the most readily treatable risk factor for aortic dissection and rupture that occurs in young women with Turner syndrome. A review of 65 cases of aortic dissection in girls and women with Turner syndrome identified concomitant congenit...