Cri Du Chat Disease

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There are lots of genetic diseases out there in world people don’t even hear of, cri du chat is one of them which is one doctors cannot do anything about but to put the patient in extensive care for the rest of that patient life, love ones and physicians can only stand by and watch the patient fighting life just to stay alive day by day. The name of the disease sounds French because it was discover in France in the past five decades by French scientists, the disease is not widely known of because is a rare disease . Cri du chat is a very rare chromosome disorder where babies are born with a missing chromosome or deleted chromosome; in other words, a missing puzzle piece which not complete due to the missing piece. Cri du chat also translate

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