- Cri du Chat affects 1 in every 20,000-50,000 children/newborn 

- this syndrome effects all ethnicities and backgrounds 

- thankfully, not many cases of this disorder are not inherited, the deletion of parts of the fifth chromosome happens randomly before you are even born or in the womb

-Cri du Chat is a French term for "cat cry or cry of the cat", which they receive from their cat-like cry, which is caused by an underdeveloped larynx.

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