From: utzoo!decvax!duke!bcw
Newsgroups: net.social
Title: Re: Age Differences - (nf)
Article-I.D.: duke.2910
Posted: Fri Jan 14 18:18:31 1983
Received: Sat Jan 15 07:11:10 1983
References: pur-ee.783

From:	Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University
Re:	Down's Syndrome

I don't think that the submitter meant that the problem was equally likely
to affect the children of older women as younger women, but to emphasize
that the ultimate cause of the problem is not known (yes, I know that it's
caused by an extra chromosome, that's not what I mean!).  Conventional
wisdom would indicate that the mother's age is the *cause*, which is
clearly not the case.

			Bruce C. Wright @ Duke University