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Cri du chat syndrome: changing phenotype in older patients.
American journal of medical genetics - 31 Jan 2000
Van Buggenhout G J, Pijkels E, Holvoet M, Schaap C, Hamel B C, Fryns J P
Abstract excerpt
The cri du chat syndrome or 5p deletion syndrome is a well-delineated clinical entity and has an incidence of 1/50,000 in newborn infants. A de novo deletion is present in 85% of the patients. Ten to 15% are familial cases with more than 90% due to a parental translocation and 5% due to an inversion of chromosome 5. Although the size of the deleted segment varies, the critical segment that is deleted in all...
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