Genetic abnormalities in Prader-Willi syndrome and lessons from mouse models.

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Prader-Willi syndrome is a multigenic disorder with developmental and neurobehavioural abnormalities. There are multiple genetic causes, although all ultimately involve the loss of paternally derived gene expression of chromosome region 15q11-q13. Multiple imprinted genes expressed only from the paternal allele have been identified in the specific region of human chromosome 15q associated with Prader-Willi...

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