RISK OF RECURRENCE OF DOWN SYNDROME
โ Scribed by Carter, C.O.; Pembury, Marcus
- Book ID
- 122734639
- Publisher
- The Lancet
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 157 KB
- Volume
- 315
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0140-6736
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๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
The recurrence risks for Down syndrome due to an inherited translocation are estimated from empirical data in the literature for two maternal age groups: mothers under 30 and mothers 30 and over. These risks were found to be approximately 0.3% and 0.05%, respectively. The probability for two Down sy
## An article by Steinberg et a1 [1984] cautioned against the potential error of counseling families a low-recurrence risk when a previous child has had a de novo 21q21q translocation Down syndrome. They also studied 112 families (ie, sets of parents) with a child with de novo 21q21q translocatio