Clinical Study: Down syndrome
Down syndrome Biorepository
Email: Participate@BenaroyaResearch.org
Phone: 206.287.5624
Study Summary
BRI’s Down Syndrome Biorepository is a confidential list of people with Down syndrome who are willing to donate samples and provide health information for scientific research.
Nearly half of all People people with Down syndrome also have an autoimmune disease. BRI’s team is working to learn why. The ultimate goal of this research is to identify new and better therapeutics to prevent and treat autoimmune diseases in people with Down syndrome. Better understanding why autoimmune diseases are more common among people with Down syndrome may also give scientists more insight into how and why autoimmune diseases start in general.
Biorepository donations from individuals with Down syndrome and their family members are invaluable to this work. This information is kept confidential, and samples and health information are coded with numbers, not names.
