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Hormonal and Metabolic Defects in a Prader-Willi Syndrome Mouse Model with Neonatal Failure to Thrive
8 Jul 2005
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Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) has a biphasic clinical phenotype with failure to thrive in the neonatal period followed by hyperphagia and severe obesity commencing in childhood among other endocrinological and neurobehavioral abnormalities. The syndrome results from loss of function of several clustered, paternally expressed genes in chromosome 15q11-q13. PWS is assumed to result from a hypothalamic defect, but the...
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