The Atlanticpublished anarticleon November 18, 2020 entitled “The Last Children of Down Syndrome”, that has already flown around social media to rave reviews. Here’s some of the new information shared and what it missed was the choice that led to the disappearance of Dow...
(which were the basis for the former name, mongolism), a single crease across the palm, hyperflexibility of the joints, and a displastic middle phalanx on the fifth finger. People with Down syndrome have an increased incidence of infection, childhood leukemia, congenital heart defects, and ...
As the gestational age increases worldwide, the incidence of Down syndrome is also on the rise. The odds of developing Down syndrome are 1 in 1,200 in 20-year-old mothers, 1 in 250 in 35-year-old mothers, 1 in 70 in 40-year-old mothers, and 1 in 20 in 45-year-old mothers. A...
She learned about the value of taking time to listen to people and she reflected on her own life story.SummaryThis paper is a narrative analysis of the accounts of six older people with Down's syndrome who spent part of their childhood in institutional environments. The study aimed to find ...
Gene expression dysregulation domains do not depend on the Down syndrome (DS) genotype.aPlot showing fold change of gene expression on Hsa21 in DS vs euploid human fibroblasts3. Expressed genes (grey dots) are plotted in chromosomal order. A Loess smoothing curve is superimposed with regions tha...
Down's Syndrome (Mongolism), Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 171, article 2, edited by Virginia Apgar, M.D. New York: The National Foundat... This volume of the New York Academy of Sciences contains the transactions of a conference on mongolism held by the New York ...
Down With Illiteracy an Ail-Russian voluntary society founded in 1923 to eradicate illiteracy and near-illiteracy among the adult population of the USSR. The society set up schools and groups, and its members provided individual instruction to illiterates as well as political education on a large ...
Stickler's syndrome: a study of 12 families. Br J Ophthalmol 1987;71:504–9. Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Mackenzie W . A practical treatise on the disease of the eye. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1840. Reese AB . Persistent hyperplastic primary...
Aim Previous studies have described the emmetropisation process as inactive in Down's syndrome (DS). However, these studies investigated only a small age range of children—either young children or teenagers. The present study aims to describe refractive error development and distribution in DS thr...
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.881316 Med Sci Monit 2011; 17(1): LE1-1 Authors informationArticle notesCopyright and License information 2,558 Abstract Keywords:Turkey - epidemiology, Heart Defects, Congenital - pathology, Down Syndrome - pathology, Aortic Coarctation - pathology ...