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Professor of Neurology, UCL

It was previously thought cognitive impairments were caused by more copies of single genes from chromosome 21. Olesia Bilkei/ Shutterstock

January 29, 2020

Down’s syndrome: specific genes in chromosome 21 found to be the cause of learning and memory problems

Matthew Walker, UCL and Elizabeth Fisher, UCL

This new research shows that cognitive impairments are actually caused by extra copies of some genes on chromosome 21.

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