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Do a lot of down syndrome children end up having children of their own?

Otherwise if down syndrome was spread by a single gene, it would have died out pretty naturally on its own, right?

(disclaimer) I admittedly don't know much about genetics.




Not sure why you're getting downvoted. It's a legit question for someone who does not know, as I did not before looking it up.

From the mayoclinic:

Most of the time, Down syndrome isn't inherited. It's caused by a mistake in cell division during early development of the fetus.

Translocation Down syndrome can be passed from parent to child. However, only about 3 to 4 percent of children with Down syndrome have translocation and only some of them inherited it from one of their parents.


It's not a genetic disease



I think he/she was shooting for ‘inherited’ instead of genetic.




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