The new Rangers first baseman announced Friday that he will wear No. 21 to pay tribute to Penelope, who was born with Down ...

Texas Rangers player Jake Burger will wear number 21 for the 2025 season in honor of his daughter Penelope, who was born with ...

Chromosome 21 is the smallest human chromosome, and procedures for examining human chromosomes were still being developed during the first part of the century. Many early cytologists had ...

Burger, who was acquired by the Rangers this offseason in a trade from the Miami Marlins, will honor his daughter.

Jake Burger is one of the Texas Rangers’ offseason additions. He explained how his daughter influenced his switch from number from 36 to 21.

The clinical name for Down syndrome is trisomy 21, a condition in which a person is born with an extra chromosome, causing ...

ARLINGTON, Texas - New Texas Rangers corner infielder Jake Burger picked his new jersey number to honor his daughter. Burger ...

Most people have two copies of each chromosome, for a total of 46. People with Down syndrome have 3 copies of the 21st chromosome, making a total of 47. Down syndrome is also called Trisomy 21.

Photograph of a karyotype - the collection of chromosomes within each cell of an organism - from a male mouse engineered by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers to model Down syndrome in a human.

Down Syndrome is also known as Trisomy 21, and Burger wants to raise awareness and contribute to research on the genetic condition.