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Today is World Day Down syndrome

World Day Down syndrome recalls the threefold increase in chromosome 21, which is the genetic alteration which mostly seen in this group.

For the sixth consecutive year, today marks 21 March 2011 on World Down Syndrome

"Every year the voice of people with this disorder and those who live and work with them, it becomes strong but there is still much more we can do, "says the charity Down Syndrome International.


date sensitize society seeks to recognize people with Down syndrome as beings who have many strengths and a lot of courage to overcome their weaknesses.

is known that the syndrome is not a disease but an alteration chromosome. It is a condition that is inherited, and can appear in any race or social status in pregnancies of women over 35 years, as younger mothers.

The global statistical reports that Down babies are born for every 800 births.

World Day Down syndrome recalls the threefold increase in chromosome 21, which is largely genetic alteration observed in this group.

Named after the British physician John Langdon Haydon Down, who in 1866 described the clinical characteristics of the condition. In 1958, French geneticist Jérôme Lejeune discovered that a chromosomal disorder chromosome 21 produced it.