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Down's Syndrome and Maternal Inbreeding*

  • Ei Matsunaga (a1)
Summary

In order to test the possible effect of maternal inbreeding upon non-disjunction, ancestors of 104 children with Down's syndrome born to younger mothers were identified on the basis of official records. Among them, 6 had related parents, while 10 of the fathers and 12 of the mothers had also such parents. The relationship comprises first-cousins, first-cousins once removed, and second cousins. It was concluded that recessive genes are unlikely to be involved in the aetiology of non-disjunction of the 21st autosome, at least in younger mothers.

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COPYRIGHT: © The International Society for Twin Studies 1966
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This paper is dedicated to Professor Dr. O. Frhr. von Verschuer in honour of his seventieth birthday. Contribution no. 618 from the National Institute of Genetics, Japan.

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Acta geneticae medicae et gemellologiae: twin research
  • ISSN: 0001-5660
  • EISSN: 2059-6324
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