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A girl with incomplete Prader-Willi syndrome and negative MS-PCR, found to have mosaic maternal UPD-15 at SNP array.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2015
Morandi Anita, Bonnefond Amélie, Lobbens Stéphane, Carotenuto Marco, Del Giudice Emanuele Miraglia, Froguel Philippe, Maffeis Claudio
Abstract excerpt
The Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by lack of expression of paternal allele of the 15q11.2-q13 region, due to deletions at paternal 15q11.2-q13 (<70%), maternal uniparental disomy of chromosome 15 (mat-UPD 15) (30%) or imprinting defects (1%). Hyperphagia, intellectual disabilities/behavioral disorders, neonatal hypotonia, and hypogonadism are cardinal features for PWS. Methylation sensitive PCR (MS-PCR)...
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