SOFT welcomes families who are expecting or who have had a baby with a related chromosomal disorder. These disorders are usually more rare than trisomy 18 or 13 and can have many variations of symptoms from little or no apparent problem to profound mental and/or physical problems. When requested, SOFT tries to find a match from its active membership families but there may only be only a few, if any members, with a specific related disorder in the SOFT database. SOFT does not have educational literature for related disorders but following this page, lists other resources that may be of help.
Related disorders can occur in any chromosome and may have one or more of the following descriptions: mosaic, monosomy, deletion, partial trisomy, translocation,
ring, tetrasomy, duplication, inversion, isochrome, triploidy,
and trisomy of chromosomes other than trisomy 18 or 13
*The one exception is trisomy 21, Down syndrome, which occurs more often than trisomy 18 or 13, and has its own support groups.
SOFT MEMBER CONTACTS
for specific chromosomes, as listed:
If you wish to become a SOFT member contact for a specific chromosome contact
Barb VanHerreweghe at (800)716-SOFT.
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