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Birth prevalence of Prader-Willi syndrome in Australia
1Department of Cytogenetics, Children's Hospital at Westmead, NSW, Australia. ellies@chw.edu.au
Archives of Disease in Childhood
|February 25, 2003
Abstract:
This is the first population based study to estimate the birth prevalence of DNA proven Prader-Willi syndrome. Thirty infants were reported to the Australian Paediatric Surveillance Unit between 1998 and 2000, a prevalence of 4 per 100,000 live births or approximately 1/25,000 live births per annum.