Rational Down syndrome screening policy.
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Screening for Down syndrome
In 1866 J Langdon Down made the observation of a subgroup of patients with particular facial features and mental handicap in the outpatient department of the London Hospital 1. In the late 1950’s, it was shown that an extra acrocentric chromosome was present in persons with Down syndrome, resulting in a diploid chromosome number of 47. It is now known that Down syndrome results when either the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Public Health
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0090-0036,1541-0048
DOI: 10.2105/ajph.88.4.558