BGAP Study: Brains, Genes, And Puberty

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A study of Klinefelter Syndrome and male adolescent neurodevelopment

This NIH funded study is designed to improve our understanding of brain and behavioral growth in boys during a critical time in their development. Information gained from this research will improve our understanding of learning, behavioral, and emotional development, ultimately facilitating the development of more specific and effective intervention services/therapies for boys with Klinefelter syndrome in the future.

Klinefelter Syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects 1 in 500 males and is the most common sex-chromosome aneuploidy, or the presence of an abnormal number of chromosomes in a cell. Boys with this syndrome tend to have low levels of testosterone and have a number of neurocognitive deficits including impaired motor function, language-based learning difficulties, social and emotional impairments, and attention/working memory deficits.

This study is a collaboration between Stanford University’s Center for Interdisciplinary Brain Sciences Research and Nemours Children’s Health System. As such study visits take place in sunny Palo Alto, CA with Stanford University or Delaware with Thomas Jefferson University.

We are looking for boys and young teens, ages 8-13, who either have confirmed Klinefelter syndrome (47, XXY) or are typically developing.

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