Down syndrome: Comments and reflections on the 50th anniversary of Lejeune's discovery

American Journal of Medical Genetics, Part A

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2647-2654

  Neri, Giovanni ^a   Opitz, John M ^b  

^a Istituto di Genetica Medica   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Aneuploidy; Down syndrome; Mouse trisomy 16; Pathogenesis; Trisomy

Indexed keywords

COLCHICINE; HYPOTONIC SOLUTION; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININ;

CELL CULTURE; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; CYTOLOGY; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; DOWN SYNDROME; EPIGENETICS; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE INTERACTION; GENE MUTATION; GENOME; HUMAN; KARYOTYPE; MATERNAL AGE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PREGNANCY TERMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

DOWN SYNDROME; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS;

DATURA;

EID: 72049133455     PISSN: 15524825     EISSN: 15524833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.a.33138     Document Type: Review

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