Article
Alteration of serum leptin and LEP/LEPR promoter methylation in Prader-Willi syndrome
2021-12-15
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<h4>ABSTRACT</h4> Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare neurodevelopmental disorder based on a loss of paternally expressed but maternally imprinted genes in chromosome region 15q11-13. During child development, PWS usually results in insatiable appetite with subsequent obesity representing the major mortality factor. The neurobiological basis of PWS-typical hyperphagia has remained poorly understood. Many PWS-typ...
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- Literature Corpus work
- fce2fa45-3dd2-5af8-891e-a66e688a2cff
- DOI
- 10.1101/2021.12.15.21267839
