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Understanding Prader-Willi Syndrome

Prader-Willi syndrome is a genetic disorder caused by changes to chromosome 15. It affects growth, behavior, and learning and requires continual management to avoid potentially life threatening ...
Sacramento Bee

Mother forms a community of families affected by rare syndrome

Haley Kavrell, 17, who must cope with Prader-Willi syndrome, which causes her to feel constant hunger, picks basil at her home in Davis late last month. Renée C. Byer [email protected] After receiving ...
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Collaboration of physicians behind first observations of Prader-Willi syndrome

Andrea Prader and Heinrich Willi, two Swiss pediatricians, and Alexis Labhart, an internist, first described Prader-Labhart-Willi Syndrome in 1956. Prader was an influential figure in European ...
Science Daily

Prader-Willi syndrome reversed in brain cells growing in the lab

Stem cell researchers have reversed Prader-Willi syndrome in brain cells growing in the lab. The discovery provides clues that could lead to a treatment for Prader-Willi, a genetic disorder that ...