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Paternally inherited microdeletion at 15q11.2 confirms a significant role for the SNORD116 C/D box snoRNA cluster in Prader-Willi syndrome.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Nov 2010
Duker Angela L, Ballif Blake C, Bawle Erawati V, Person Richard E, Mahadevan Sangeetha, Alliman Sarah, Thompson Regina, Traylor Ryan, Bejjani Bassem A, Shaffer Lisa G, Rosenfeld Jill A, Lamb Allen N, Sahoo Trilochan
Abstract excerpt
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neurobehavioral disorder manifested by infantile hypotonia and feeding difficulties in infancy, followed by morbid obesity secondary to hyperphagia. It is caused by deficiency of paternally expressed transcript(s) within the human chromosome region 15q11.2. PWS patients harboring balanced chromosomal translocations with breakpoints within small nuclear ribonucleoprotein...
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