We report on a 12-year-old boy and his 7-yearold sister with the Prader-Willi syndrome. They both had severe initial hypotonia with feeding problems and later developed a n increasing appetite. Both sibs have almondshaped eyes, triangular mouth, hypogonadism, retarded growth, and mental retardation.
Prader-Willi syndrome: Consideration of a question in its clinical, cytogenetic and molecular aspects
β Scribed by Norio Niikawa
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Year
- 1990
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 83 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1435-232X
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