Day 104 has 39 protein-coding genes (browser view) and is the beginning of Chromosome 5.
When this tip of Chromosome 5 breaks off, it causes Cri du chat syndrome, a rare developmental disorder. The severity of the disease depends on how much of the 5p arm breaks off, but it’s not known which of the missing genes is important.
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