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Fourteen patients with the Prader-Willi syndrome and five suspected infants were studied cytogenetically. High-resolution chromosome analyses with a modified ethidium bromide technique revealed an interstitial deletion of the proximal 15q in 13 out of the 14 typical patients and in four of the five suspected infants. A 15;15 Robertsonian translocation with a deletion in the proximal 15q was noticed in one infant. But in one patient, a normal karyotype was confirmed. The affected region common to all the patients was confined to a sub-band 15q11.2 (ISCN, 1981). These findings support the result of a recent study by Ledbetteret al. (1981, 1982), and indicate that the frequency of the 15q deletion in definite patients with the Prader-Willi syndrome is very high.
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Fukushima, Y., Niikawa, N. & Kuroki, Y. The Prader-Willi syndrome and interstitial deletion of chromosome 15: High-resolution chromosome analyses of 14 patients with the Prader-Willi syndrome and of 5 suspected infants. Jap J Human Genet 29, 1–6 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01876751
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