{"id":1119,"date":"2016-10-03T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T10:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2024-08-27T15:53:43","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T19:53:43","slug":"national-syndrome-awareness-month-1-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/national-syndrome-awareness-month-1-21\/","title":{"rendered":"National Down Syndrome Awareness Month&#8211;1 of 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start at the beginning.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #314250; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Down syndrome occurs when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #314250; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">One in every 691 babies in the United States is born with Down syndrome. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #314250; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">There are three types of Down syndrome: <strong>trisomy 21 (nondisjunction)<\/strong> accounts for 95% of cases, <strong>translocation<\/strong> accounts for about 4%, and <strong>mosaicism<\/strong> accounts for about 1%.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #314250; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Down syndrome is the most commonly occurring chromosomal condition.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #314250; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">Down syndrome occurs in people of all races and economic levels.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"margin: 0px; color: #314250; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Open Sans'; font-size: 11.5pt;\">(Source: NDSS)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/files\/2016\/09\/NDSAM11.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1113\" src=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/files\/2016\/09\/NDSAM11.png\" alt=\"ndsam11\" width=\"253\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/files\/2016\/09\/NDSAM11.png 253w, https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/files\/2016\/09\/NDSAM11-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s start at the beginning. Down syndrome occurs when an individual has a full or partial extra copy of chromosome 21. One in every 691 babies in the United States is born with Down syndrome. There are three types of Down syndrome: trisomy 21 (nondisjunction) accounts for 95% of cases, translocation accounts for about 4%,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[24,29,106,15,30,51,16,41,105,107],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-acceptance","tag-awareness","tag-birth","tag-down-syndrome","tag-gigis","tag-gigis-indy","tag-gigis-playhouse","tag-indianapolis","tag-national-down-syndrome-awareness-month","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/indianapolis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}