Showing posts with label Down. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Down. Show all posts

Sunday, April 17, 2016

Patau Pataus - Edward Edwards - Down Downs - What is the correct Trisomy Syndrome name?

Trisomy Syndromes named after the Physician who described the genetic disorder. trisomy is a type of polysomy in which there are three instances of a particular chromosome, instead of the normal two. A trisomy is a type of aneuploidy
(an abnormal number of chromosomes). 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy
Trisomy 13 Patau Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus_Patau
Here the are correct terms for the trisomy 13, 18 and 21 Syndromes. Patau, Edwards and Down. Only Edwards has an S.
You'll see many switching these names up with and or without the S but the correct terms for these are - Patau Syndrome, Edwards Syndrome and Down Syndrome.