Down Syndrome Research Paper

Luke Zimmerman, who plays on “The Secret Life of an American Teenager” and “Glee”, is a famous celebrity that is diagnosed with Down syndrome and he is 35 years old and has been involved in early intervention programs from the time he was two weeks old. In this report, you will learn about certain things having to do with Down syndrome. Such as the basic description, the background and history, and the complications for the kids who have Down syndrome and the parents of kids who have Down syndrome. Down syndrome is a chromosomal condition of chromosome 21 that causes intellectual and developmental problems. Down syndrome doesn’t just show up during your life, you’re not going to just start noticing you have Down syndrome in the middle of your life or be diagnosed with it later on. You’re born with it; you have no way to get rid of it at any time. You can’t change it. Down syndrome is a chromosomal condition that is linked to intellectual disability. Each human should have 46 chromosomes, 23 from the father, and 23 from the mother. But whenever

Many individuals with Down’s syndrome were killed, or abandoned from society. Before the word Down syndrome, people called it “mongoloid” or “Trisomy 21”. They do have a shorter life expectancy than normal adults (age 55). In 1959, a French physician; Jerome Lejeune is the one that realized the chromosomal condition Lejeune observed that there was 47 chromosomes in each cell of a person with down syndrome. Then he noticed that there was an extra copy of chromosome 21 which results with characteristics associated with Down syndrome. In 2000, a group of scientist discovered that there are approximately 329 genes on chromosome 21. In 1983 people with Down syndrome only lived to the age 25, now they can live up to 55-60 years old because of the medications we now have for those kinds of people to keep them on track and trying to get them to live an actual adult’s