[Clinical aspects and genetics of Prader-Willi syndrome].

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UNLABELLED: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is considered to be a rare neurogenetic disorder, nevertheless it represents the most common syndromatic obesity. Main features are severe hypotonia in the newborn period with feeding difficulty and failure to thrive in the first few months, and improvement in later infancy. Between 1 and 6 years the development of a marked truncal obesity is observed, sometimes later on...

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