Cri-Du-Chat

[Jerry Learn]

In article <6392gu$3dj at freenet-news.carleton.ca>,
bh658 at FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Robert J B Wilson) wrote:

> I have recently been told that the condition known as Cri-du-chat
> has been known to turn up in my family.  All I 'know' about this
> is that is a genetic defect, affecting the fifth pair of 
> chromsomes; that it strikes some female offspring and that it is
> generally fatal.
> I would appreciate any information you could provide.
> Do you know of any newsgroup devoted to genetics? or WWW address?
> Thankyou so much for your help.
> Robert Wilson

The Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM) database
<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Omim/> is ideal for searching for such
information via the WWW.  Here is a link to the entry for Cri-du-chat:

<http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Omim/dispmim?123450>
Jerry Learn

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