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Growth hormone secretion among adult patients with Prader-Willi syndrome due to different genetic subtypes.
26 Mar 2012
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BACKGROUND: Patients with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) due to maternal uniparental disomy of the chromosome 15 (UPD15) have fewer facial features, less hypopigmentation and higher levels of psychosis compared to subjects with deletion in chromosome 15 (del15q11-q13). PWS individuals carrying the larger type I (TI) deletion suffer from greater behavioral problems than patients with the smaller type II (TII)...
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