Record

StorageSite	UCL Special Collections
Level	Item
Reference Number	PENROSE/2/20/1/5
Title	Papers on Maternal Age and Down's Syndrome
Date	1938
Description	Contains a letter from The Lancet regarding a paper by Bleyer on the role of advanced maternal age in causing Down's syndrome; an untitled typescript by Penrose synthesising recent studies on maternal age and Down's syndrome, and sent to The Lancet in March 1938; and a typescript paper by Penrose titled "A Method of Separating the Relative Aetiological Effects of Birth Order and Maternal Age, with special reference to Mongolian Imbecility" [sic].
Extent	40 folios
AccessStatus	Open
AccessConditions	The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking.

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