Why do people with Down syndrome have less cancer?
Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 08:49
in Health & Medicine
Most cancers are rare in people with Down syndrome, whose overall cancer mortality is below 10 percent of that in the general population. Since they have an extra copy of chromosome 21, it's been proposed that people with Down syndrome may be getting an extra dose of one or more cancer-protective genes...
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