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Down's syndrome discovery dispute resurfaces in France

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Debate flares over who discovered extra chromosome that causes the disease.

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  1. Lejeune, J., Gauthier, M. & Turpin, R. C. R. Acad. Sci. 248, 602-603 (1959).

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