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2003 SEP 26 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A novel chromosomal abnormality is linked to a disorder resembling Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS).
"Different genetic and non-genetic disorders, including several chromosomal abnormalities, may mimic" PWS, scientists in the United States explained.
L. Florez and colleagues at Louisiana State University described the case of "an 11-year-old girl with features reminiscent of PWS due to an unreported de novo paracentric inversion Xq26q28."
"Microdeletion 15q11-q13 and maternal-uniparental disomy 15 were ruled out," they reported.
"The importance of chromosomal studies in addition to molecular analysis on patients with features suggestive of PWS is stressed," the researchers concluded.
Florez and coauthors published their ...