A friend of mine has given birth to a baby with Down Syndrome and was told by the PAED that there are more cases of DS now with young mothers. SOunded strange to me so I did a google and apparently another big factor is the age of the Maternal grandmother when she gave birth to the mother.
Her Nuchal scan did not pick up anything and because she is relatively young it gave her a firther reduced risk.
ANyone heard anything about this?
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DOWN SYNDROME not necessairly linked to maternal age????
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drosophila · 22/03/2006 16:20
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