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OUR MISSION
The Focus Foundation is dedicated to helping children and families affected by X & Y Variations, Dyslexia, and/or Developmental Dyspraxia. The Focus Foundation believes that through increased awareness, early identification and syndrome-specific treatment, children with these conditions can reach their full potential.

Research Studies

ANDROGEN REPLACEMENT IN 47,XXY BOYS
 In this now closed study, Dr. Judith Ross, a pediatric endocrinologist at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, and co-investigator Dr. Carole Samango-Sprouse, of The Focus Foundation and the Neurodevelopmental Center for Young Children, recruited subjects for a study involving the use of physiologic doses of androgen replacement in 47,XXY boys between the ages of four and 12. The study was free to research subjects and took place in Philadelphia.

SEX CHROMOSOMES DISORDERS AND BRAIN DEVELOPMENT
Dr. Jay Giedd, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and developmental neuroscientist at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is recruiting XXYY, XYY and 47XXY and XXX twin subjects between the ages of four and 25 for a study involving the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to study the effects of sex chromosomes on brain development and to help uncover core biological features of X and Y chromosome aneuploidy conditions.

Contact: Jonathan Blumenthal
Project Coordinator, NIH Klinefelter Syndrome Study
NIMH Child Psychiatry Branch, Building 10, Room 4C110
Bethesda, MD 20892-1367

Phone: 301-435-4516
Fax: 301-480-8898
E-mail: jonathan.blumenthal@nih.gov
Trial Web page: intramural.nimh.nih.gov/chp/xxy/index.html

  
                  

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