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Methylation-specific-polymerase chain reaction (MS-PCR) is a primordial technique not only to identify the genetic mechanism of AS but also to characterize the different molecular classes induced in the appearance of the clinical symptoms. Patients with positive methylation profile were additionally studied by fluorescent in situ hybridization. Sequencing analysis of the UBE3A gene was performed for patients with negative MS-PCR. We used Fisher's test to assess differences in the distribution of features frequencies among the deletional and the nondeletional group. Statistical analysis was performed using R project. We identified from 97 patients diagnosed with AS, 14 (2.06%) had a classical AS phenotype, while 70 (84.5%) patients displayed a subset of consistent and frequent criteria. Development delay was shown severe in 63% and moderate in 37%. Nineteen out of 97 of them had MS-PCR positive in which 17 (89.47%) had 15q11-q13 deletion. Deletion patients presented a higher incidence of epileptic seizures (p\u2009=\u20090.04), ataxia (p\u2009=\u20090.0008), and abnormal electroencephalogram (EEG) profile (p\u2009=\u20090.003). We further found out a frameshift deletion located at exon 9 of the UBE3A gene discovered in a 5 years old patient. We report in this study the genotype\u2013phenotype correlation using different molecular testing. Correlation analysis did not reveal any statistical differences in phenotypic dissimilarity between deletion and nondeletion groups for most clinical features, except the correlation was highly significant in the abnormal EEG. According to our findings, we recommend offering MS-PCR analysis to all patients with severe intellectual disability, developmental delay, speech impairment, happy demeanor, and hypopigmentation.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1055\/s-0042-1751268","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,16]],"date-time":"2022-08-16T20:57:15Z","timestamp":1660683435000},"page":"015-021","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Impact of Deletion on Angelman Syndrome Phenotype Variability: Phenotype\u2013Genotype Correlation in 97 Patients with Motor Developmental Delay"],"prefix":"10.53391","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-4969-8529","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Hanae Daha","family":"Belghiti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Medical Center of Biomedical and Translational Research, Hassan II University Hospital, Fez, 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