My grandson has been in hospital since his premature birth April 11th. Doctors have also done genetic testing and say he has a (micro)deletion on Chromosome 2. None of the doctors (including geneticist) knows what this means apparently because the base pairs area of deletion is entirely new uncharted territory. My son and daughter-in-law are not really too worried as they just want to get him home. (He has had breathing problems since birth, no steroids to mother so on ventilator for 9 weeks, then CPAP up until now. Had a gastrostomy mid-September because of feeding issues due to lung problems.) My grandson should be home within a couple of weeks but we're wondering if they should be taking the genetic glitch a little more seriously or not? (He has midface hypoplasia, proptosis, low set ears - which seem to be migrating closer to normal position as his head grows - 11 pair of ribs, shorter than average upper arms and upper legs, and, as I mentioned earlier the lung issues which affected his feeding and the need for a feeding tube). Do you know anything about Chromosome 2 and microdeletions there. I'm not even sure what part of the chromosome is affected. Is it possible that this "glitch" which wasn't even discovered until about the third or fourth round of genetic testing on him, will have little effect on him? Also, regarding the short stature both his parents are short with the father being only 5'3".