[From the clinical to the genetic diagnosis of Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes].

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INTRODUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT: Angelman syndrome (AS) is characterised by severe mental retardation (MR), the absence of language, ataxia and/or tremors in the extremities and a characteristic behavioural phenotype with a happy behaviour and hyperactivity. Patients often show signs of microcephaly and convulsions. Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is characterised by acute hypotonia and feeding problems in the neonatal...

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