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?
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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