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Fri 08 Aug 2009Down syndrome congress told of genetic drug study
US RESEARCHERS are “on the verge” of developing treatments to help with some difficulties experienced by people with Down syndrome, delegates at the World Down Syndrome Congress in Dublin were told yesterday.
David Patterson, a professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, University of Denver, spoke of his research into the ill-effects of the extra copy of chromosome 21 which causes Down syndrome.
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