Down Syndrome in Malta 1993 – 2012

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Directorate for Health Information and Research

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1993–2015

Down syndrome was first described by the English physician John Langdon Down in 1866. This is a chromosomal condition which occurs when an individual is born with a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21; the condition is thus also known as Trisomy 21. Down Syndrome is the most common chromosomal defect encountered globally and it is