Parental-age effects in Down syndrome

Journal of Genetics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-7

  Girirajan, Santhosh ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Down syndrome; Human genetics; Meiosis; Nondisjunction; Parental age; Penrose; Trisomy 21

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DOWN SYNDROME; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MOSAICISM; NOTE; PARENT; RISK FACTOR;

DOWN SYNDROME; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MOSAICISM; PARENTS; RISK FACTORS; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 69449097956     PISSN: 00221333     EISSN: 09737731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12041-009-0001-6     Document Type: Article

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