An anthropometric study of 38 individuals with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome

✍ Scribed by Butler, Merlin G. ;Meaney, F. John ;Opitz, John M. ;Reynolds, James F.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 481 KB
• Volume: 26
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0148-7299
• DOI: 10.1002/ajmg.1320260224

✦ Synopsis

Weight, height, sitting height, and 24 other anthropometric variables (5 body circumferences, skinfolds at 7 sites, 4 head dimensions, and 8 hand and foot measurements) were obtained on 38 Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome (PLWS) individuals (2 1 with apparent chromosome 15 deletions and 17 nondeletion cases) with an age range of 2 weeks to 38% years. More than half of these individuals were measured on more than one occasion. The measurements confirmed the presence of short stature, small hands and feet, obesity, and narrow bi-frontal diameter in PLWS. No differences were found for the anthropometric measurements between the 2 chromosome subgroups. Inverse correlations were produced with linear measurements (eg, height, hand and foot lengths) and age, which indicated a deceleration of linear growth relative to normal individuals with increasing age.