what year john down discover
It is named after John Langdon Down, the British doctor who fully described the syndrome in 1866. Some aspects of the condition were described earlier by Jean-Ãtienne Dominique Esquirol in 1838 and Ãdouard SÃ©guin in 1844. In 1957, the genetic cause of Down syndrome, an extra copy of chromosome 21, was discovered.