People with intellectual disability continue to receive substandard healthcare as programme to train doctors risks closure

Sam Stubbs’s parents were asked about his quality of life while treating him for a lung infection. They realised it was because he was born with Down syndrome.
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Mapping autosomal recessive intellectual disability: combined microarray and exome sequencing identifies 26 novel candidate genes in 192 consanguineous families

Approximately 1% of the global population is affected by intellectual disability (ID), 1 which can have a devastating effect on the lives of the affected individuals and their families and is a major ...