Post 54. Co-signing and being a guarantor are two different things. Every co-signer is a guarantor, but not every guarantor is a co-signer. If you pledge to repay a debt of another without the possibility of personal return, then you are the co-signer.
About 6,000 babies with Down syndrome are born in the United States every year, and the national population of people with DS is estimated to be 400,000. Babies with DS and typically developing infants are more alike than they are different.
Most people have 46 chromosomes in each cell. Children with Down syndrome have 47 chromosomes. They have an extra copy of chromosome 21. Normally, we inherit 23 chromosomes from our mother and 23 chromosomes from our father (for a total of 46).