An unnamed disease recently made headlines in the UK after a five-year-old girl was diagnosed with it. The disease is nothing short of riddle for the doctors and scientists, and symptoms are so overlapping with other common health conditions that it has not been universally named. Some call it DiGeorge syndrome or alternatively Shprintzen syndrome but there is no all-accepted name. It is associated with what is called 22q syndrome. The full name of the syndrome is 22q11.2, where "22" reflects the chromosome number.
Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes in every cell of their bodies. So, 22q11.2 is comparable to an IP address on internet with only difference that it indicates a location on a chromosome.The syndrome is caused by deletion of a portion of chromosome. It occurs near the middle of 22nd chromosome at a location designated as q11.2. Some news reports published in the UK quoted…
