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Two patients with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion presenting with childhood obesity and hyperphagia.
European journal of medical genetics - 1 Aug 2016
Bassett J K, Chandler K E, Douzgou S
Abstract excerpt
Chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome is a clinically heterogeneous condition of intellectual disability, parathyroid and thyroid hypoplasia, palatal abnormalities, cardiac malformations and psychiatric symptoms. Hyperphagia and childhood obesity is widely reported in Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS) but there is only one previous report of this presentation in chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome. We describe two...
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