Talk:TAR syndrome
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I realize that some links are helpful to certain users, but they still do not comply with Wikipedia policy, and therefore must not be included in the article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:05, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
Date discovered
I'm not sure this is correct. I personally know a woman who was born with this condition in 1951, and the doctors had informed her mother of the disorder and the precautions that must be taken, they were aware that it was a recessive genetic trait, etc. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.181.220.209 (talk) 11:49, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
Chance of having another affected child?
The article mentions that a sibling has a 25% chance of having a similar condition. That would be true if the condition were inherited on a single gene and was autosomal recessive. I think, however, that the inheritance of TAR is much more complex and less well understood. It certainly involves more than the one gene and it is true that there are people with the known mutated gene who are phenotypically unaffected. This almost certainly means that a sibling of a person with TAR syndrome would have less than a 25% chance of having the same condition - what the exact risk is I am not sure. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.149.129.110 (talk) 00:35, 6 November 2009 (UTC)