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Open AccessDown Syndrome: how to communicate the diagnosis
Communicating the diagnosis of Down Syndrome to a couple of parents is never easy, whether before or after birth. As doctors, we must certainly rely on our own relational skills, but it is also necessary to be...
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Open AccessA reassessment of Jackson’s checklist and identification of two Down syndrome sub-phenotypes
Down syndrome (DS) is characterised by several clinical features including intellectual disability (ID) and craniofacial dysmorphisms. In 1976, Jackson and coll. identified a checklist of signs for clinical di...
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Open AccessCognitive profiles in children and adolescents with Down syndrome
The Down syndrome (DS) phenotype is usually characterized by relative strengths in non-verbal skills and deficits in verbal processing, but high interindividual variability has been registered in the syndrome....
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Open AccessOne-carbon pathway and cognitive skills in children with Down syndrome
This work investigates the role of metabolite levels in the intellectual impairment of subjects with Down syndrome (DS). Homocysteine, folate, vitamin B12, uric acid (UA), creatinine levels and MTHFR C677T genoty...
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Open AccessPlasma metabolome and cognitive skills in Down syndrome
Trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, DS) is the main human genetic cause of intellectual disability (ID). Lejeune hypothesized that DS could be considered a metabolic disease, and we found that subjects with DS have a s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Requirements for Large Scale Web Accessibility Evaluation
The recent European legislation emphasizes the importance of enabling people with disabilities to have access to online information and services of public sector bodies. To this regard, automatic evaluation a...
