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Prader-Willi syndrome

Suzanne B. Cassidy, Stuart Schwartz, Jennifer L. Miller, Daniel J. Driscoll

1989.7.1GENETICS IN MEDICINE

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-3854-6

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Prader-Willi syndrome is characterized by severe infantile hypotonia with poor suck and failure to thrive; hypogonadism causing genital hypoplasia and pubertal insufficiency; characteristic facial features; early-childhood onset obesity and hyperphagia; developmental delay/mild intellectual disability; short stature; and a distinctive behavioral phenotype.

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CASSIDY, Suzanne B., et al. Prader-willi syndrome. GENETICS IN MEDICINE, 1989, 14: 10–26.