French doctor who made Down syndrome discovery closer to sainthood

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French doctor who made Down discovery closer to sainthood

Pope Francis on Thursday approved the “heroic virtues” of Dr. Jerome Lejeuneand was particularly esteemed by St. John Paul II for his antiabortion stance.

According to his official biography, Lejeune in 1958 discovered the existence of an extra chromosome on the 21st pair during a study of the chromosomes of a child. It was the first time scientists had found a link between an intellectual disability and a chromosomal anomaly; the condition is now known as trisomy 21.

 

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