When a new baby comes to a family it comes with enormous promise. Parents care for and love this new child with every fiber of their being. They hold great hope for the child’s future. Then as days and weeks and months pass they realize something isn’t right and the struggle begins. Parents of children with distinct genetic mutations now are seeking out others to form support networks.

“With technology that can now scan each of an individual’s 46 chromosomes for minute aberrations, doctors are providing thousands of children lumped together as “autistic” or “developmentally delayed” with distinct genetic diagnoses. The symptoms, they are finding, can be traced to one of dozens of deletions or duplications of DNA that were previously hard or impossible to detect.”
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