Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome

Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome: (22q deletion, chromosome 22q11.2 deletion, Shprintzen syndrome, DiGeorge syndrome)

Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome (VCFS) Educational Foundation, Inc. (also, spanish): List of over 175 findings reported with 22qdel, international groups

Also See:

National organizations with information on genetic conditions or birth defects
22q11 Deletion, GeneClinics
DiGeorge Syndrome
CHARGE syndrome
22q and you newsletter, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Faces of Sunshine, 22q and You Center, Book, $10.00 US checks or money orders to "Clinical Genetics, Education Fund #27087-275760000 ( not purchase orders or credit card payment), c/o Melissa Tonnesen, MS, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, The 22q and You Center, Main Building, Room 2150, 34th Street and Civic Center Blvd., Philadelphia, PA 19104, e-mail: tonnesen@email.chop.edu
DiGeorge Syndrome, NIH, NCBI
DiGeorge Anomaly, PEDBASE
DiGeorge Syndrome, National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine
DiGeorge Syndrome, Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM)
History of the 22q11.2 Deletion, DM McDonald-McGinn and EH Zackai
Medical needs of children with the 22q11.2 deletion, 22q and You, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome Research Institute Closed July 2002
Velo-Cardio-Facial Syndrome - Genetic Counseling

International resouces

VCFS Foundation (Qld), Australia
The 22q11 Group (England & Wales)
DiGeorge syndrome sites francophones
Generation 22, Association des personnes atteintes d'une microdélétion 22q11 (syndrome de Di George)

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Revised November 4, 2002

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