Paternal Age and Down's Syndrome

Date:
1956-1964
Reference:
PENROSE/2/20/10
Part of:
L. S. Penrose Papers
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Paternal Age and Down's Syndrome. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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Contains a notebook and loose manuscript notes and data on parental age and incidence of Down's syndrome, and a typescript of "Paternal age in mongolism" (sic) for the Lancet, 1962. Also contains correspondence primarily concerning Penrose's requests for dates of birth of relatives of Down's syndrome cases assessed in various studies, and a list of participants for the International Copenhagen Congress on the Scientific Study of Mental Retardation, August 1964.

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1956-1964

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17 items

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The original material is held at UCL Special Collections. This catalogue is held by the Wellcome Library as part of Codebreakers: Makers of Modern Genetics.

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