Diseases & Disorders
The following diseases are some of those related to genes on chromosome 22:
- Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
- Breast cancer
- DiGeorge Syndrome
- Desmoplastic small round cell tumor
- 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
- 22q13 deletion syndrome or Phelan-McDermid syndrome
- Li-Fraumeni syndrome
- Neurofibromatosis type 2
- Rubinstein-Taybi syndrome
- Waardenburg syndrome
- Cat eye syndrome
- Methemoglobinemia
- Schizophrenia
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