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Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45 (Post 378480)

Down Syndrome is when the 23rd allele (I think that is what it is) is copied twice so they have one extra allele than normal. Most people with Down Syndrome do not procreate and the gene still shows up.
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Please, stop murdering your biology. It breaks my heart. We should all have 2 alleles of every gene in our DNA. One from mom, one from pop.

Down syndrome is known as Trisomy 21, becasue it is a result of the indivdual having part or all of the 21st chromosome in triplicate, not duplicate as in a typical individual. As women age, the last cell division in meiosis becomes more likely to have errors, thus we see an increased incidence of Down's babies born to older mothers. Trisomy occurs for all of our chromosomes, however for most it is a fatal mistake and the fetus dies. Men don't have this problem, because they are continually making brand spanking new sperm every day. A woman is born with the finite number of eggs that she will have for her lifetime.

LR, at what age does this begin to be an issue?

Also, you said "spanking new sperm every day." That's funny.

I sometimes refer to odd people as 'old eggs'

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Originally Posted by HungLikeJesus (Post 379045)

LR, at what age does this begin to be an issue?

My cousin (mother of 3) says late 30s.

36 is the official age at which you get classified as "high-risk" due to your age, but that's for a wide variety of things, I don't know how the frequency of Downs lines up with that.

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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 378988)

The only thing better then the women's A&F jeans is getting to look at the posters for men's A&F jeans while you try them on.

so...while i'm holding your purse and looking like a total dick in that faggy store that doesn't even MAKE clothes that fit real man sized men......you're in there with your pants off looking at strange mens' butts?!

::kicks stuff around the room::

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 379156)

Hey, I spent 2 hours in a bra shop one day...I was the only guy in there the whole time. Good thing I love April a whole lot!

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Originally Posted by sycamore (Post 379159)

Hey, I spent 2 hours in a bra shop one day...I was the only guy in there the whole time. Good thing I love April a whole lot!

I had a similar experience last week, but it was 25 minutes in the "young womens'" bra section of Target. Talk about surreal...

That almost sounds pedophilic, man!

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Originally Posted by lumberjim (Post 379156)

lmao!

But I guess I'm going to the wrong clothing stores. Quality Farm and Fleet ain't got no pitchers of hot guys! :lol:

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 379226)

Quality Farm and Fleet ain't got no pitchers of hot guys! :lol:

*sticks thumbs between overall straps and flannel, moves piece of straw from one corner of mouth to other*

Nope, but they got some reel good shitkickers. :D

lol, Bri. You know what I'm talkin' 'bout! *spits tobaccy on the floor*

Everybody thinks Ohio is nuthin' but farmers, but we got us a rocky-roll music mooseeum an' a bridge named after a MacDonny samich!

And we gots buckeyes!

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123 (Post 379237)

And we gots buckeyes!

Yuh can't sees outta 'em (we tried with Ethel, you know she got her one good eye put out last fall shuckin' corn) but they make fer a good scarecrow face!