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The Committee of the Cri du Chat Syndrome Support Group (UK and Ireland) are pleased to announce a CdC Day – to be held on 5th May 2012.
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Vision
Our vision is a society that values and nurtures those with Cri du Chat syndrome enabling them to live full, happy and healthier lives.
Mission statement:
We aim to provide support to people with Cri du Chat syndrome by engaging with them and supporting their families, their carers and professionals. The CDCSSG will also strive to improve knowledge of CdCS by facilitating appropriate research into the syndrome with the hope of creating a better quality of life for all members of a Cri du Chat family.
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The Cri du Chat Syndrome Support Group was founded in the mid 1980’s by Ann Wilson, a parent of a child with Cri du Chat Syndrome, after discovering that there was no support group specifically for this syndrome.
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Cri du Chat syndrome (CdCS) is a relatively rare chromosome disorder affecting approximately 1 in 37,000-50,000 live births.
The exact sex ratio is not known although reports indicate that females outnumber males by 2 to 1. The syndrome is known to result from a deletion from the short arm of chromosome 5 and represents one of most common deletion syndromes in humans. A deletion occurs when there is a loss of material from one chromosome because of either one break (a terminal deletion) or two breaks (an interstitial deletion).
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