What is the cause of Williams syndrome?

a) Lesioning of the prefrontal cortex.
b) Having only one sex chromosome.
c) A deletion of part of chromosome 7.
d) A loss of oxygen to the brain during birth.
e) Trisomy of the 21st chromosome.

Answer: C

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