The team identified six cases of Down syndrome and one case of Edwards syndrome in human populations that were living in Spain, Bulgaria, Finland, and Greece from as long ago as 4,500 years before ...

Researchers analyzed the remains of infants buried across Europe and found six cases of Down syndrome and one case of Edwards syndrome, according to the study. The Government of Navarre and J.L.

Remains of individual “CRU001”, a boy who died at or shortly before birth and was buried in Alto de la Cruz. For many years, researchers at MPI-EVA have been collecting and analyzing ancient DNA from ...

Remains of individual “CRU001”, who the researchers discovered had Down syndrome. The remains were found at a site in Spain dating to the Iron Age. Photograph from the Government of Navarre and J.L.