Prader-Willi Syndrome: Clinical Genetics and Diagnostic Aspects with Treatment Approaches.

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BACKGROUND: Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a neuro-developmental genetic disorder due to lack of expression of genes inherited from the paternal chromosome 15q11-q13 region with three main genetic subtypes. These include paternal 15q11-q13 deletion (about 70% of cases), maternal uniparental disomy 15 or both 15s from the mother (20-30% of cases), and defects in the imprinting center (1-3%) which controls the...

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