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    Jérôme Jean Louis Marie Lejeune (French pronunciation: [ʒeʁom ʒɑ̃ lwi maʁi ləʒœn]; 13 June 1926 – 3 April 1994) was a French pediatrician and geneticist...
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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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  • Retrieved 5 October 2023. "Fondation Jérôme Lejeune - Déficience intellectuelle d'origine génétique". Fondation Jérôme Lejeune (in French). Retrieved 5 October...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • United States; it is influential in the promotion of New Math. May 22 – Jérôme Lejeune, working with Marthe Gautier in Raymond Turpin's French laboratory,...
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    for the opening of a cause for the beatification of French geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. In 1997 Angelini formed the International Institute for Research on...
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    lead to the Veil Law in 1975. Its main spokesman was the geneticist Jérôme Lejeune. Since 2005, the French anti-abortion movement has organized an annual...
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  • Innocentto Leonelli 1625 before 1679 Isabel Larrañaga Ramírez 1899 1999 Jérôme Lejeune 1926 1994 Joaquina Maria Barcelo Pages 1940 2012 Joseph Hartmann 1866...
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  • Discovery of the cause of Down syndrome (chromosome 21 trisomy) by Jérôme Lejeune in 1958-1959 (syndrome first described by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol...
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    United States. Swan Lake 3D - Live from the Mariinsky Theatre, 2013 Jerome Lejeune - To the least of these my brothers & sisters (documentary), 2015 The...
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  • endocrinologist Grant Liddle identifies Liddle's syndrome. French pediatrician Jérôme Lejeune first describes cri du chat syndrome. Pentasomy X is first diagnosed...
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  • in 2004. Ricercar, a Belgian early music label founded by musician Jérôme Léjeune in the 1980s, along with the Ricercar Consort. Zig-Zag Territoires,...
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    sample in the laboratory. From 1956 to 1958, Turpin - with students Jérôme Lejeune and Marthe Gautier - studied the number and appearance of chromosomes...
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  • US molecular biologist, Nobel Prize, headed Rockefeller University Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994), French pediatrician, geneticist, credited with discovering...
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  • André Moussous Leishmaniasis – Sir William Boog Leishman Lejeune's syndrome – Jérôme Lejeune Lemierre's syndrome – André Lemierre Lenègre's disease –...
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    ensemble founded in 1980 together with the Ricercar record label of Jérôme Lejeune. The founding members were violinist François Fernandez, organist Bernard...
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  • 1898) 1 April – Robert Doisneau, photographer (born 1912) 3 April – Jérôme Lejeune, paediatrician and geneticist (born 1926) 9 April – Marcel Ichac, alpinist...
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  • Kinch, 35, American basketball player, AIDS-related complications. Jérôme Lejeune, 67, French pediatrician and geneticist, cancer. Aharon Remez, 74, Israeli...
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    Solidaria 2023 Sébastien Jodogne Leibniz University Hannover Fundación Jérôme Lejeune Argentina 2024 Alexandra Elbakyan Sea-Eye Centre Médico Familial et...
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  • occasions he invited on air Professor Jérôme Lejeune and representatives of his group Fondation Jérôme Lejeune. You are of the right, I am of the left...
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  • (d. 2017) 1925 – Kristine Miller, American actress (d. 2015) 1926 – Jérôme Lejeune, French pediatrician and geneticist (d. 1994) 1926 – Paul Lynde, American...
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    model of plate tectonics, helping create the field of plate tectonics Jérôme Lejeune (1926–1994) – pediatrician and geneticist, best known for his discovery...
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  • a BSc with first class honours in zoology. In 1959, five days after Jérôme Lejeune described the trisomy-21 in Down syndrome, basing himself off Marthe...
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  • December 2011 Jérôme Bellay (2011–2016) Hervé Gattegno (2016–2021) Jérôme Bellay (2021–2022) Jérôme Béglé, (January 2022 – June 2023) Geoffroy Lejeune (since...
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