Description

Prader-Willi syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by hypothalamic-pituitary abnormalities with severe hypotonia during the neonatal period and first two years of life and the onset of hyperphagia with a risk of morbid obesity during infancy and adulthood, learning difficulties and behavioral problems or severe psychiatric problems. The disease is clinically and genetically heterogeneous. It is caused by anomalies involving the critical region of chromosome 15 (15q11-q13).

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