Recognition of the clinical features of Trisomy 13 syndrome, a common autosomal trisomy, provides the basis for diagnostic testing and counseling of families. This article provides a systematic guide ...

(CBS) Bella Santorum, the 3-year-old daughter of Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, was hospitalized over the weekend with pneumonia and complications from the genetic disorder, Trisomy ...

Trisomy 18 is a fatal chromosomal condition that can be detected during pregnancy. It's also at the center of a new legal case in Texas, where a mom of two, Kate Cox, is seeking an abortion after ...

A recent study shows that a new DNA test that identifies Down syndrome in pregnancy can also detect trisomies 18 and 13. A newly available DNA-based prenatal blood test that can identify a pregnancy ...

For people with trisomy 21 – more commonly known as Down syndrome – learning and remembering important concepts can be a struggle, since some of their brain’s structures do not develop as fully as ...

Mary Theresa Nilo has lived nearly five years longer than her doctors expected. She’s 6 years old. At 10, Julia Johnson has outlived projections by about nine years. They suffer from trisomy syndrome, ...

Delivering a connection-building protein to star-shaped cells in the brain could reverse changes to neural circuits seen in ...

At age 3, Rick Santorum’s daughter Bella, who has been hospitalized for the second time during his presidential campaign, has outlived the majority of children born with Trisomy 18, a relatively ...

(BPT) - You’ve probably heard of Down syndrome, but did you know: * About one in every 700 babies in the U.S. is born with this condition? * A 45-year-old woman is 10 times more likely to conceive a ...

During the year 1966, 7 infants with the D-trisomy syndrome presented at Los Angeles County General Hospital and thus afforded the opportunity to investigate the hemoglobin characteristics in a rather ...

Overgrowth is rarely associated with chromosomal imbalances. Here we report on four children from two unrelated families presenting with overgrowth and a terminal duplication of the long arm of ...

Initial examination will reveal an infant that is uniformly growth restricted or has a distinctive central dysmorphic midline structural anomaly (microphthalmia, cyclops, cleft lip, omphalocele).