Cri du chat syndrome: A series of five cases

• Main Authors: Harsha M Dangare (Author), Samuel P Oommen (Author), Amisha N Sheth (Author), Beena Koshy (Author), Reeba Roshan (Author), Maya M Thomas (Author), Sumita Danda (Author), Vivi M Srivastava (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The cri du chat syndrome (CdCS) is a chromosomal deletion syndrome associated with a partial deletion of the short (p) arm of chromosome 5. We describe five children who were diagnosed to have CdCS by conventional cytogenetic analysis. The deletion was at 5p15 in four patients, whereas the fifth had...