It took more than 50 years for Marthe Gautier to set the record straight about her discovery of the genetic cause of Down ...

Down syndrome affects around 1 in 800 new births and is caused by an extra third copy of chromosome 21. About half of children with Down syndrome have hearing loss due to otitis media with ...

Cells from buccal smears were positive for sex chromatin. Only 14 cells obtained from bone marrow could be subjected to chromosome analysis. Of these, 13 had 48, and 1 had 50 chromosomes.

The clinical name for Down syndrome is trisomy 21, a condition in which a person is born with an extra chromosome, causing mild to moderate cognitive disability, developmental delays and physical ...

That’s because people with Down’s syndrome, who have an extra copy of chromosome 21, produce increased amounts of beta-amyloid, a protein that is implicated as a possible cause of Alzheimer’s.

Discover a study that explores the effectiveness of JAK inhibitors to treat dermatological autoimmunity for people with Down ...

“The country’s health care system is not well developed to meet the needs of people with Down syndrome after they become adults,” said Chisen Takeuchi, a specialist of clinical genetics who ...

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The clinical name for Down syndrome is trisomy 21, a condition in which a person is born with an extra chromosome, causing mild to moderate cognitive disability, developmental delays and physical ...