cats meow syndrome

The syndrome of "5p-" better known as Cat's meow Syndrome is a rare disease identified by the geneticist Jerome Leujene in 1963.

This syndrome occurs by deletion and lack of a fragment of chromosome 5. Small with this syndrome are born with low weight and with a very sharp cry. Therefore, the discoverer defined it as Cri du Chat.

This characteristic is crying as the first sign of disease but, despite that, in many cases are unaware of what the doctors and parents of affected children a real start racking up giving them the accurate diagnosis.