Comparison of phenotype in uniparental disomy and deletion Prader-Willi syndrome: Sex specific differences

American Journal of Medical Genetics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 133-136

  Mitchell, John ^a   Schinzel, Albert ^b   Langlois, Sylvie ^a   Gillessen Kaesbach, Gabriele ^c   Schuffenhauer, Simone ^d   Michaelis, Ron ^e   Abeliovich, Dvorah ^f   Lerer, Isabel ^f   Christian, Susan ^g   Guitart, Miriam ^h   McFadden, Deborah E ^a   Robinson, Wendy P ^a,b,i  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e GREENWOOD GENETIC CENTER   (United States)

^f HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^g NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

^h HOSPITAL DE SABADELL   (Spain)

ⁱ BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Prader Willi syndrome; sex ratio; trisomy 15; uniparental disomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISOMY; FEEDING; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; HUMAN; HYPERPHAGIA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 15; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; MIDDLE AGED; PHENOTYPE; PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME; SEX FACTORS; SEX RATIO;

EID: 0029907547     PISSN: 01487299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8628(19961016)65:2<133::AID-AJMG10>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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