Usually 法庭会把孩子判给妈妈. We don't know what's going on with the kid's mother, but from the report I think the young mum got too stressed giving birth to and taking care of this child.
As I said, this is an unfortunate incident. There are much blissful marriages of uncles and 20+yo lasses from Asean and China and India. Don't use this incident to stir foreign bride issues and old ppl's mindset of keeping the family 香火 (procreation of next generation).
the normal scans will check for nose bridge.. got a more throrough test is to get some liquid from the womb to go for testing.
maybe now have less intrusive tests.
There is a technology to edit away the extra chromosome, but it is not ready for human trial. It is call CRISPR. in the future, you go lohkoonchu the doc will just take the stem cell and click click click on the computer and the nano-scissors (ie bacteriophage) is released from a very tiny needle to cut away that particular chromosome.
one in 800 babies gets an extra copy of extra chromosomes, leading to disabilities and weird facial features. down is one of them. In down syndrome, there is an additional copy of chromosome 21 resulting in three copies instead of the usual two copies. down syndrome is a genetic condition caused when an unusual cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21. thus it is also called trisomy 21.
edwards syndrome - extra copy of chromosome 18
patau syndrome - extra copy of chromosome 13
klinefelter - syndrome xxy
triple x - syndrome xxx
these conditions occur when a person has an extra copy of a chromosome in each cell.
