Den kliniska studien av könskromosomvarianter

Patients previously identified through outside research or diagnostic labs as having sex-chromosome variants causing deletion/duplication of sex-linked genes or entire sex chromosomes.@@@

• INCLUSION CRITERIA:

  1. Patients previously identified through outside research or diagnostic labs as having sex-chromosome variants causing deletion/duplication of sex-linked genes or entire sex chromosomes, male and female.
  2. In the event that a patient with a sex-chromosome variant self-refers to the protocol, medical records will be reviewed by a committee to include Dr. David Page, Dr. Maximilian Muenke, and others to decide whether the patient is appropriate for enrollment in the protocol.
  3. Willing family members of subjects enrolled may be enrolled as control subjects.

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

1. We reserve the right to exclude patients with medical conditions that would place a potential participant at high risk of complications if managed at the NIH clinical center (ex. dialysis dependency, unstable cardiac conditions, unstable severe depression/suicidality).
2. We reserve the right to exclude cases that are clearly not related to sex-chromosome variants, infertility or our direct research interests (e.g. infertility with clearly non-genetic etiology). This almost never happens, and we would attempt to make referrals to a more

appropriate investigator.

It is our intention to try to remove as many economic, cultural, geographic, racial, and gender barriers as we reasonably can to promote a diverse participation of sex-chromosome variant cases for research purposes.