History of Disorder
Edward's Syndrome was first discovered in 1960 at the Children’s hospital in Birmingham by a British geneticist named John Hilton Edwards. Edwards was a professor of human genetics at Birmingham University from 1969 to 1979 and at Oxford University from 1979 to 1995. He was also the author of a book called, Human Genetics (1978) as well as numerous papers on a variety of topics in the field. Mr. Edwards discovered trisomy 18 while working at the Children’s Hospital. He was spending one morning a month at the hospital when he recognized a potential chromosomal aberration in a newborn- he called it “trisomy, type unknown.” He learned about chromosomes from Charles Ford and David Harden at Harwell. So when he discovered trisomy 18, he obtained post-mortem tissues and delivered them to Harwell, where Harnden demonstrated trisomy 18 or Edwards Syndrome, as it came to be known.
This disorder is very hard to treat, since there is no cure and symptoms can vary from a variety of different things. People in the past and today who have this disorder are treated for the symptoms they have and not for the disorder its self.
This disorder is very hard to treat, since there is no cure and symptoms can vary from a variety of different things. People in the past and today who have this disorder are treated for the symptoms they have and not for the disorder its self.