# Downs syndrome in Hispanics?

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**Created:** [September 5, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downs-syndrome-in-hispanics/32019 "2000-09-05T00:36:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downs-syndrome-in-hispanics/32019/1 "2000-09-05T00:36:09Z")

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Is Downs syndrome rare in the Hispanic population?

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**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downs-syndrome-in-hispanics/32019/2 "2000-09-05T01:17:10Z")

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You know, now that I think about it… the only people with Down’s Syndrome I’ve ever seen are white/caucasian. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a ‘minority’ with Down’s Syndrome.

–Tim

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**Post date:** [September 5, 2000, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/downs-syndrome-in-hispanics/32019/3 "2000-09-05T03:42:26Z")

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_Encyclopedia Americana_ says

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> Down’s syndrome occurs in all races and in all economic and social roups.

_Textbook of Human Genetics_ by Max Levitan says

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> Down syndrome occurs in all population groups that have been studied. (Indeed a very similar syndrome has been found in champanzees trisomic for a very small chromosome presumably homologous to number 21 of man.)

They don’t say so, but I suspect the rate is about the same in all races.