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The cognitive phenotype of Down syndrome: insights from intracellular network analysis.
NeuroRx : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics - 1 Jul 2006
Ma'ayan Avi, Gardiner Katheleen, Iyengar Ravi
Abstract excerpt
Down syndrome (DS) is caused by trisomy of chromosome 21. All individuals with DS exhibit some level of cognitive dysfunction. It is generally accepted that these abnormalities are a result of the upregulation of genes encoded by chromosome 21. Many chromosome 21 proteins are known or predicted to function in critical neurological processes, but typically they function as modulators of these processes, not as key...
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