Down syndrome, paternal age, maternal ag
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J. DAVID ERICKSON
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Article
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1978
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## SUMMARY Recent cytogenetic evidence has shown that trisomy 21 can arise, perhaps even in substantial proportion, from paternal nondisjunction. The statistical association between Down syndrome incidence and maternal age, paternal age and birth order has been studied in a sample of over 4000 case