Tuesday, February 18, 2014

The History of Trisomy 18

When was it discovered?
1960 

Who discovered it?
Edwards, John Hilton, a British geneticists, discovered the disease. He served as a professor of human genetics at Birmingham and at Oxford University and contributed to every aspect of his subject—in population, cytology, and trisomy studies, as well as radiation, blood group, and linkage studies

How was it discovered?
It was first recognized as a clinical entity by the discovery of an extra chromosome 18 in babies with a particular pattern of malfunction.

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