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Assessing the Clinical Utility of SNP Microarray for Prader-Willi Syndrome due to Uniparental Disomy.
Cytogenetic and genome research - 1 Jan 2017
Santoro Stephanie L, Hashimoto Sayaka, McKinney Aimee, Mihalic Mosher Theresa, Pyatt Robert, Reshmi Shalini C, Astbury Caroline, Hickey Scott E
Abstract excerpt
Maternal uniparental disomy (UPD) 15 is one of the molecular causes of Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS), a multisystem disorder which presents with neonatal hypotonia and feeding difficulty. Current diagnostic algorithms differ regarding the use of SNP microarray to detect PWS. We retrospectively examined the frequency with which SNP microarray could identify regions of homozygosity (ROH) in patients with PWS. We...
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