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A textbook from which I am teaching claims that Downs Syndrome is the result of non-disjunction and that this occurs the father in 25% of cases. Is this correct? If so, how does the incidence of Downs Syndrome increase with the age of the mother if meiosis in females occurs very early in life?
Re:Non-disjunction and Down's syndrome
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