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Genomic imprinting and uniparental disomy in Angelman and Prader-Willi syndromes: a review.
American journal of medical genetics - 1 Apr 1993
Nicholls R D
Abstract excerpt
Although Angelman (AS) and Prader-Willi (PWS) syndromes are human genetic disorders with distinctly different developmental and neurobehavioural phenotypes, they both have abnormalities in inheritance of chromosome 15q11-q13. Whether AS or PWS arises depends on the parental origin of a deletion or uniparental disomy (the inheritance of 2 copies of a genetic locus from only one parent) for 15q11-q13. Normal...
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