Table 4. Table 4. Major Congenital Defects Other than Down's Syndrome Reported among 453 Leukemic Children and Their Matched Controls (National Cooperative Leukemia Survey, 1959–1961).

IN 1959 Lejeune, Gautier and Turpin1 observed that patients with Down's syndrome had 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46. An extra small acrocentric chromosome, belonging to the No. 21 group, wa ...

Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an extra chromosome, and it is the most common chromosomal anomaly in humans. The condition was originally called “Mongolism.” ...

Life with Down syndromeDown syndrome by the numbers Last month, results were released from a six-year study of 2,044 families with children who have Down syndrome. 99% of parents said they love ...

Although Dr. John Langdon Down first identified the condition marked by an extra chromosome in 1866, it wasn’t until the 1970s that “Mongolism” was renamed Down syndrome.

In previous years, Down syndrome was serious misjudged. It was first categorized as Mongolism in 1866 by John Langdon Down, it’s now named after him.

Once offensively termed “Mongolism,” Down syndrome was little-understood for centuries, and those with it, and their parents, were often marginalized and stigmatized well into the 19th and ...

FOR many years now, we have been working on the epidemiology of Down's syndrome (mongolism) in the State of Victoria, Australia, and have charted its occurrences during 1942–64. Peaks of ...

Doctors used to brutally describe Down syndrome as mongolism and recommend that people like Carrie be institutionalized. But Carrie's parents sought care for her from the beginning.

A best-selling author has recalled 20,000 copies of her new book, which used the term "mongolism" to describe Down's syndrome.

Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an extra chromosome, and it is the most common chromosomal anomaly in humans. The condition was originally called “Mongolism.” ...