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To: firebrand

Firebrand - not sure of the science or relevance of your post.

Many scientists take the position that a woman has X number of eggs in their ovaries at sexual maturity, and that’s a finite number, whereas spermatogenesis is an ongoing process, and pending sexual activity, human sperm are often well less than a week old, every time.

I welcome your thoughts.


63 posted on 03/06/2018 3:54:53 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur: non vehere est inermus)
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To: Blueflag

It was a guess, and qualified as being highly improbable. It is a fact, though, that Downs can be due to the father’s age.

Another possibility is that it is inherited, as a minuscule number of Downs cases are, and we just haven’t noticed it since it is very rare and we don’t test everyone as a matter of course. If so, it would most probably be recessive, since the parents of the two people were obviously fine.


73 posted on 03/06/2018 11:18:50 AM PST by firebrand
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