When a child is born it most likely has the facial characteristics of one or both of its parents...?

Question

What my question is is if one or both of those parents had Downs Syndrome (assuming that the child was born "normal") could it take on their facial characteristis and still look as tho it had Downs?

I understand that the syndrome is what causes the characteristics but I was thinking that they would be passed on... So I guess the child would just take on the regular family characteristics???

Thanks guys :)

Answer 1

The facial charachteristics of Down's Syndrome are directly related to the disorder and the genetics accociated with it. If the chlid is born without down's it will take on the characteristics based in who's gene's in inhereted, but not the down'd syndrome "look" but possibly what the parent affected may have looked like had they not been born with Down's Syndrome. Because Down's is a random occurrence of a chromosonal disorder during development, there is no more or less likelyhood for the child of a parent with the disorder producing a child with D.S. Yes it is a genetic, chromosonal disorder, but it is not one that is passsed down or inhereted

Answer 2

if a child's normal then there's no way he'd look abnormal since the child doesn't posses the triple 21 gene. he would look normal just like his parents should have looked like if they weren't affected with Down's Syndrome.

Answer 3

no, the syndrome itself is what causes the characteristics