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In five of these patients, a differential diagnosis was made (Ohdo-like blepharophimosis syndrome, Alstr\u00f8m syndrome, Cohen syndrome, Bardet-Biedl syndrome, and pseudohypoparathyroidism). A total of 327\/385 blood samples was sent to us from outside. The test confirmed the diagnosis of PWS in 112\/327 patients. Most of the other 215 patients lacked the major diagnostic criteria such as neonatal hypotonia, feeding problems, characteristic facies, and hypogenitalism. On the other hand, 29\/65 hypotonic infants tested positive for PWS. We conclude that the PW71 methylation test detects most, if not all, patients with typical PWS and that PWS is often not recognised in infants and wrongly suspected in obese and mentally retarded patients.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1136\/jmg.32.2.88","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,11,10]],"date-time":"2008-11-10T15:23:16Z","timestamp":1226330596000},"page":"88-92","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":78,"title":["DNA methylation based testing of 450 patients suspected of having Prader-Willi syndrome."],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"32","author":[{"given":"G","family":"Gillessen-Kaesbach","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S","family":"Gross","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"S","family":"Kaya-Westerloh","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"E","family":"Passarge","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"B","family":"Horsthemke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[1995,2,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"793","DOI":"10.1002\/ajmg.1320230307","article-title":"Clinical and cytogenetic survey of 39 individuals with Prader-Labhart-Willi syndrome","volume":"23","author":"Butler, M.G.; Meany, F.J.; Palmer, C.G.","year":"1986","unstructured":"Butler MG, Meany FJ, Palmer CG. 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