Jérôme Lejeune
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Jérôme Lejeune
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Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune was a French pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his work on the link of diseases to chromosome abnormalities, most especially the link between Down Syndrome and trisomy-21 and cri du chat syndrome, amongst several others, and for his subsequent strong opposition to the improper and immoral use of amniocentesis prenatal testing for eugenic purposes through selective and elective abortion. He is venerated in the Catholic Church, having been declared Venerab
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French pediatrician and geneticist (1926–1994)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A9r%C3%B4me_Lejeune
date created:
2005-08-01T19:44:01Z
date modified:
2024-09-05T15:31:48Z
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