Carolina Maya-González, Sandra Wessman, Kristina Lagerstedt-Robinson, Fulya Taylan, Bianca Tesi, Ekaterina Kuchinskaya, W Glenn McCluggage, Anna Poluha, Stefan Holm, Ricard Nergårdh, Teresita Díaz De Ståhl, Charlotte Höybye, Giorgio Tettamanti, Angelica Maria Delgado-Vega, Anna Skarin Nordenvall, Ann Nordgren
Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare disease caused by a lack of expression of inherited imprinted genes in the paternally derived Prader-Willi critical region on chromosome 15q11.2-q13. It is characterized by poor feeding and hypotonia in infancy, intellectual disability, behavioral abnormalities, dysmorphic features, short stature, obesity, and hypogonadism. PWS is not a known cancer predisposition syndrome, but previous investigations regarding the prevalence of cancer in these patients suggest an increased risk of developing specific cancer types such as myeloid leukemia and testicular cancer...
2023: Frontiers in Medicine