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Disruption of the mouse necdin gene results in early post-natal lethality.
Nature genetics - 1 Oct 1999
Gérard M, Hernandez L, Wevrick R, Stewart C L
Abstract excerpt
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurobehavioural disorder characterized by neonatal respiratory depression, hypotonia and failure to thrive in infancy, followed by hyperphagia and obesity among other symptoms. PWS is caused by the loss of one or more paternally expressed genes on chromosome 15q11-q13, which can be due to gene deletions, maternal uniparental disomy or mutations disrupting the imprinting...
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