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Investigating Autism-Related Symptoms in Children with Prader-Willi Syndrome: A Case Study.
International journal of molecular sciences - 28 Feb 2017
Bennett Jeffrey A, Hodgetts Sandra, Mackenzie Michelle L, Haqq Andrea M, Zwaigenbaum Lonnie
Abstract excerpt
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a rare genetic disorder caused by the lack of expression of paternal genes from chromosome 15q11-13, has been investigated for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) symptomatology in various studies. However, previous findings have been variable, and no studies investigating ASD symptomatology in PWS have exclusively studied children. We aimed to characterize social communication functioning...
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