Infants and some adults with this disorder exhibit light-colored clumps of connective tissue on the outside of the iris called Brushfield spots.
Infants and some adults with this disorder exhibit light-colored clumps of connective tissue on the outside of the iris called Brushfield spots. Some studies have shown that increased expression of certain tumor suppressor genes in people with this disorder leads to resistance to most kinds of cancer. Sufferers of this disorder often have a single crease across the palm, defects in the septum between the heart ventricles, (*) almond-shaped eyes due to epicanthic folds, and moderate to severe mental retardation. For 10 points, name this disorder caused by a trisomy of chromosome 21.
Infants and some adults with this disorder exhibit light-colored clumps of connective tissue on the outside of the iris called Brushfield spots.
{Down} syndrome [or trisomy 21 until mention]