- X-linked recessive disease
- Reduced or complete absence of the sense of smell (anosmia-caused by the absence of the olfactory bulbs),
- underdeveloped genitalia - infertility
- lack of secondary sexual characteristics,
- gynaecomastia,
- short 4th metacarpal bone
- Males affected (1 in 10,000).
- Reduced or complete absence of the sense of smell (anosmia-caused by the absence of the olfactory bulbs),
- underdeveloped genitalia - infertility
- lack of secondary sexual characteristics,
- gynaecomastia,
- short 4th metacarpal bone
- Males affected (1 in 10,000).
- Presents at puberty
- Normal life-span
- reduced or absent GnRH, with hypogonadotrophic hypogonadism.
- Hypothalamus is also affected
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