Word: widukind
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laid down in a sort of pre-egg form while she is still in her mother's womb, or shortly after birth. This explains why the mother's health, at conception and during pregnancy, may be important a generation later. Therefore, West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz concluded, "the present trend toward earlier sexual maturity, earlier marriage and earlier reproduction is biologically favorable...
...health reasons), a detachment of parents who are co-plaintiffs followed the testimony intently from reserved seats, while malformed children played in the corridors. On the witness stand was the man who, by extensive research, first developed the evidence that forced thalidomide's withdrawal from sale. Dr. Widukind Lenz was a pediatrician in Hamburg when he began to study the effects of the drug. Now 49, he has moved to Münster as director of the Institute of Human Genetics...
...Classical hemophilia, resulting from the absence of a clotting factor from the blood, is carried in an X chromosome. The mother-carrier, with one such abnormal chromosome, derives it from her father. West Germany's Dr. Widukind Lenz, of thalidomide fame, now reports that the risk of a woman's inheriting such a mutation increases sharply with the father's age at the time of her conception...
...consisted of assorted internal malformations in newborn babies, plus an upsurge in one hitherto rare condition: phocomelia or "seal limbs." so called because the hands and feet are like flippers, attached close to the body with little or no arm or leg. Hamburg University's Pediatrician Widukind Lenz. 43. began to suspect Contergan because he found that in many cases the mothers had taken it late in the second month of pregnancy, when the fetus' limbs are forming...
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