pataus syndrome
Klaus Patau who was a German-American human geneticist discovered the syndrome. ... He was diligently researching as he stumbled over a new unfound disorder and named it after himself, taking his last name and dubbing the name, of a now common disorder, Patau’s Syndrome. Patau’s Syndrome is an inherited syndrome that has an abnormality of the number of chromosomes. ... A close cousin to this disease that is also a common disorder is Down Sydrome, is alike in some aspects and does have an extra chromosome, therefore a duplication occurred even more creating a trisomy, much like Patau’s Syndrome. ... For this reason and all of these complications in Patau’s Syndrome causes 82% of people who suffer from it to die within the first month of being diagnosed, and only 17% live past two months of their life.