DENVER, Jan. 11, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Global Down Syndrome Foundation announced today that it has translated important prenatal testing information into Icelandic and provided the resource to ...
Nearly 100 percent of Icelandic women whose fetus tests positive for having Down syndrome has an abortion, reports CBS News; in 2009, only three babies were born with the disorder. Close to 85 percent ...
Medically reviewed by Nicholas R. Metrus, MD Key Takeaways Mosaic Down syndrome has some cells with three copies of chromosome 21, and some with two instead of all three.Only about 1% to 2% of people ...
People with Down syndrome have a message for the world: "Assume that I can." An international awareness campaign, launched ahead of World Down Syndrome Day on Thursday, challenges negative biases that ...
Researchers have identified a gene that causes heart defects in Down syndrome, a condition that results from an additional copy of chromosome 21. Reducing the overactivity of this gene partially ...