congenital disorder

What Type Of Inheritance Is Down Syndrome?

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What Type Of Inheritance Is Down Syndrome? Most of the time, Down syndrome isn’t inherited. It’s caused by a mistake in cell division during early development of the fetus. Translocation Down syndrome can be passed from parent to child. Is Down’s syndrome dominant or recessive? Like cystic fibrosis, Down’s Syndrome is autosomal recessive. This means

Did John Langdon Down Have Down Syndrome?

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Did John Langdon Down Have Down Syndrome? Did John Langdon Down have Down syndrome? John Langdon Down Portrait of Down Born John Langdon Haydon Down18 November 1828 Torpoint, Cornwall, England Why is Down syndrome named after John Langdon Down? He asked Norman (!) Langdon Down if his family name could be used to indicate the