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And thanks to the help of A Special Wish Foundation and the generosity of Value Added Packaging, Inc. - 2-year-old Troy resident Brian Norvell Jr. was able to do that...
Hope Mills, N.C. — At the tender age of 7, Hailey Howard has already undergone three open-heart surgeries to correct problems caused from a rare chromosome disorder called DiGeorge syndrome.
UC Davis MIND Institute research finds rigorous evaluations are needed to accurately diagnose autism in children with 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
But the National Institute of Health estimates 22q may be more common than that, as doctors and researchers suspect it may be commonly misdiagnosed or even underdiagnosed in some individuals.
The investigators found that people aged 35 to 64 who were missing DNA on a specific part of chromosome 22 were about 90 times more likely to develop Parkinson's than people from the same age group in the general population
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