Down+Syndrome-Description

**History**

 * ====In 1866, characteristics of down syndrome (DS) were linked with decreased intellectual ability and grouped as one syndrome.====
 * ====In 1959, Dr, Jerome Lejeune made the discovery that down syndrome was the result of chromosome abnormality.====
 * ====This genetic disorder was named after John Langdon Down (the first to publish the findings of down syndrome).====

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