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Cognitive abilities and genotype in a population-based sample of people with Prader-Willi syndrome.
Journal of intellectual disability research : JIDR - 1 Feb 2004
Whittington J, Holland A, Webb T, Butler J, Clarke D, Boer H
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BACKGROUND: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is characterized by extreme floppiness at birth, impaired sexual development, short stature, severe over-eating, characteristic physical features and learning disabilities (LD). Impaired social cognition, literal mindedness and cognitive inflexibility are also present. The syndrome has two main genetic subtypes that both result in the failure of expression of maternally...
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