Prader-Willi Syndrome Association (USA)
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Description: Characteristics include hypotonia, insatiable appetite, obesity if food intake is uncontrolled, hypogonadism and incomplete sexual development, developmental delays, variable degrees of mental retardation or functional retardation, short stature (adult), small hands and feet, mild dysmorphology, and behavior problems which can be severe.
Did you know that PWSA (USA), which is funded through our “On The Move” activities and other donations, provides for the most extensive support services for families and people with PWS in the world. In addition to Research, PWSA (USA) provides the following Family Support Services:
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| Page title: | Prader-Willi Association (USA) |
| Keywords: | Prader-Willi Syndrome, PWSA(USA),Prader-Willi Syndrome Association,PWS,genetics,prader-willi research, prader-willi syndrome research,skin picking,obesity, chromosome 15, Obsessive Compulsive Behavior,developmental delay,failure to thrive,growth hormone,hyperphagia,hypothalamus,muscle weakness, hypotonia,uniparental disomy,UPD, small hands and feet, hypoganadism, hypogenitalism, body composition, obsessive-compulsive behavior, self-injurious behavior, skin picking, rectal picking, eating disorder, hyperphagia, food seeking, narrow bi-frontal diameter, short stature, growth hormone therapy, infantile hypotonia, feeding difficulties, poor suck reflex, scoliosis, gastric distension or rupture, ghrelin, peptide YY, neuropeptides, hypothalamus, genomic imprinting, 15q11-q13 region, SNRPN, imprinting defects (mutations), paternal deletion, maternal disomy, heterodisomy, isodisomy, epimutations, fatness patterns, insulin resistance, decreased muscle mass, energy balance (or expenditures), metabolic rate, transgenic mice, SSRIs, relaxation of imprinting, natural history, quality of life, life-threatening obesity, contiguous gene syndrome, microdeletion, hypopigmentation, enamel hypoplasia, diagnostic criteria, sticky saliva, temperature instability, decreased pain sensation, gastrostomy tube, developmental delay, decreased fetal movement, breech delivery, diet control, orexigenic, visual memory, verbal IQ, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, DEXA, fat-free mass, microarray gene expression, GABA, BMI, type I and II deletions, genotype/phenotype correlations, inedible food items, sleep disorders, dolichocephaly, strabismus, delayed puberty |
| Description: | Prader-Willi Syndrome |
| IP-address: | 216.119.95.32 |