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Prader-Willi syndrome with an unusually large 15q deletion due to an unbalanced translocation t(4;15).
Annales de genetique - 1 Jan 2000
Varela Monica C, Lopes Graziela M P, Koiffmann Celia P
Abstract excerpt
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurobehavioral disorder caused by deletions in the 15q11-q13 region, by maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 15 or by imprinting defects. Structural rearrangements of chromosome 15 have been described in about 5% of the patients with typical or atypical PWS phenotype. An 8-year-old boy with a clinical diagnosis of PWS, severe neurodevelopmental delay, absence of speech and...
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