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A clinical and genetic study of 1,280 cases of mental defect.

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Spec. Rep. Ser. Med. Res. Coun. (Lond), No. 229. 1938 CE.

In this exhaustive study Penrose showed (p. 36) the significance of maternal age in the etiology of Down syndrome.

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