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Authors
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1 Department of Food Service Management and Dietetics, Avinashilingam Deemed University, Coimbatore - 641 043, IN
Source
The Indian Journal of Nutrition and Dietetics, Vol 39, No 7 (2002), Pagination: 311-320
Abstract
John Langdon Down, a physician, in 1866, was the first to describe a set of children with mental retardation and referred them as Mongolids. Waardenberg and Bleyer, in 1930s were the first to speculate that it might be due to chromosomal abnormalities.