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World Down Syndrome Day: Celebrate, educate, and advocate on March 21
World Down Syndrome Day is right around the corner, and I invite you to join us in celebrating on March 21! This special day ...
What every parent should know about Down Syndrome: A pediatrician’s perspective
Down Syndrome, known as Trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by an extra chromosome 21. It affects facial appearance, ...
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Microarray-Based Prenatal Diagnosis for the Identification of Fetal Chromosome Abnormalities
[44] Combining a limited karyotype with the more objective microarray ... microarrays for pregnancies that screen positive for a Down's syndrome risk and advanced maternal age.
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Ring 20: Could the rare disease get left behind by next-generation gene sequencing?
Ring Chromosome 20 Syndrome, or (R)20, is an ultra-rare form of epilepsy with a devastating impact – yet despite huge leaps forward in gene sequencing in recent years, diagnoses are going down ...
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Bexarotene Impairs Cognition and Produces Hypothyroidism in a Mouse Model of Down Syndrome and Alzheimer’s Disease
All individuals with Down syndrome (DS) eventually develop Alzheimer’s disease ... with Repeated Measures (RM) (‘session’ x ‘karyotype’ x ‘treatment’ or ‘trial x karyotype x treatment’). The rest of ...
UNC Health opens 1-stop clinic to serve children and adults with Down syndrome
The UNC Down Syndrome Clinic is the first of its kind in North Carolina and one of only a handful of similar clinics across ...
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Sock and Awe: Violet brings joy to World Down Syndrome Day
The "rocking" of colorful, mismatched socks every March 21 might seem like a weirdly random tradition on a weirdly random day ...
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'We all have to be equals': 25-year-old Elma woman with Down Syndrome shares the importance of acceptance
Friday, March 21 is World Down Syndrome Awareness Day and we're highlighting local voices in the Down Syndrome community, like Sydney Hanley's.