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- Scientific American: Science News 25 February 2007 Drug May Counteract Down Syndrome: Formerly approved drug imparts lasting learning and memory improvements to impaired mice
- Nature Neuroscience 25 February 2007; doi:10.1038/nn1860 Pharmacotherapy for Cognitive Impairment in mouse model in Down Syndrome
- The DNA sequence of human chromosome 21 (Landmark NATURE article)
- Genome Res. 2002 Sep;12(9):1323-32: "Comparative Genomic Sequence Analysis of the Human Chromosome 21 Down Syndrome Critical Region "
- Int J Dev Biol. 2002 Jan;46(1):89-96: "Chromosome 21: a small land of fascinating disorders with unknown pathophsysiology"
- Genomics. 2002 Jun;79(6):833-43: "Annotation of Human Chromosome 21 for Relevance to Down Syndrome: Gene Structure and Expression Analysis"
- Research Abstracts on Down Syndrome (Len Leshin, M.D.)
- NIH Abstract June 2001: "On the cause of mental retardation in Down syndrome: extrapolation from mouse models"
- General Human Genome News (Index)
- DS Regions Identified with Chromosome 21
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