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The National Down Syndrome Project: design and implementation.
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974) - 1 Jan 2000
Freeman Sallie B, Allen Emily G, Oxford-Wright Cindy L, Tinker Stuart W, Druschel Charlotte, Hobbs Charlotte A, O'Leary Leslie A, Romitti Paul A, Royle Marjorie H, Torfs Claudine P, Sherman Stephanie L
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OBJECTIVE: The National Down Syndrome Project (NDSP), based at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, represents a multi-site, population-based, case-control study with two major aims: (1) to identify molecular and epidemiological factors contributing to chromosome nondisjunction and the consequent packaging of an extra chromosome into an egg or sperm, and (2) to identify risk factors for Down syndrome-associated...
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