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Microdeletion and trinucleotide-repeat syndromes
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A 4-year-old has developmental delay, a palatal abnormality and a repaired conotruncal heart defect. A routine chromosome study shows 46 chromosomes without a visible structural abnormality. The clinical geneticist suspects a small deletion that includes several neighboring genes.