Comparison of perinatal factors in deletion versus uniparental disomy in Prader-Willi syndrome.

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Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is caused by a deficiency of imprinted genes in the 15q11-q13 region and is characterized by prenatal onset of hypotonia, poor feeding, childhood-onset obesity, hyperphagia, short stature, facial dysmorphism, intellectual disability, and behavioral problems. We studied perinatal factors in a cohort of 64 people with PWS resulting from paternal deletion of 15q11-q13 and maternal...

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