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Charles Epstein was a geneticist back when most people didn't know what a geneticist was.

In the 1950s, before Epstein, another geneticist, Jerome Lejeurene, had been researching the cause

of Down syndrome. He knew it had to be something that affected individuals at the very earliest

stages of development, because he could see telltale signs of

the syndrome in patient's fingerprints. Fingerprints form extremely early in embryonic development,

and once they're set, they don't change. So, Down syndrome, Lejean thought, had to be genetic. But in the

1950s, it was hard to get more specific than that.

Genetics was a novel field, and little was known about how it worked.

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