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    Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his work on the link of diseases...
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    of affected children (sound sample [1]). It was first described by Jérôme Lejeune in 1963. The condition affects an estimated 1 in 50,000 live births...
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  • Iry LeJeune (1928–1955), American musician Jean Lejeune (1592–1672), French priest Jean-Denis Lejeune (born 1959), Belgian activist Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994)...
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  • Retrieved 5 October 2023. "Fondation Jérôme Lejeune - Déficience intellectuelle d'origine génétique". Fondation Jérôme Lejeune (in French). Retrieved 5 October...
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    number or shape. In 1959 Jérôme Lejeune reported the discovery that Down syndrome resulted from an extra chromosome. However, Lejeune's claim to the discovery...
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    Faustine, Jérôme-Aristide, Angélico. Works by Clara Lejeune: La Vie est un bonheur, Jérôme Lejeune, mon père (Life is a privilege, Jérôme Lejeune, my father)...
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    causes Down syndrome, a discovery previously attributed exclusively to Jérôme Lejeune. Marian Diamond (1926–2017) – working at the University of California...
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  • Lutheran who wrote The Natural Sciences and the Christian Message. Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994): French pediatrician and geneticist known for research into...
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  • affected by cardiopathy. The Jérôme Lejeune Foundation asserts that a letter from Turpin to Lejeune in October 1958 shows that Lejeune, and not Gautier, identified...
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    activist Jérôme Lejeune. A Catholic, he is the father of nine children: Philothée, Bérénice, Thaïs, Marie-Lou, Amédée, Eulalie, Faustine, Jérôme-Aristide...
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