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Clinical and molecular characterization of a patient with 15q21.2q22.2 deletion syndrome.
Cytogenetic and genome research - 1 Jan 2014
Velázquez-Wong Ana C, Ruiz Esparza-Garrido Ruth, Velázquez-Flores Miguel Á, Huicochea-Montiel Juan C, Cárdenas-Conejo Alan, Miguez-Muñoz Cristian P, Araujo-Solís María A, Salamanca-Gómez Fabio, Arenas-Aranda Diego J
Abstract excerpt
We report on a 16-year-old girl with a complex phenotype, including intellectual disability, facial dysmorphisms, and obesity. During her infancy, she presented with weak sucking, global developmental delay, and later with excessive eating with central obesity. The girl was clinically diagnosed with probable Prader-Willi syndrome. Chromosomal analysis showed a de novo deletion 46,XX,del(15)(q21q22). However, the...
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