Prenatal diagnosis of Prader-Willi syndrome due to uniparental disomy with NIPS: Case report and literature review.
Jekaterina ShubinaIlya Y BarkovOlga K StupkoMaria V KuznetsovaAndrey Y GoltsovTaisya O KochetkovaDmitry Y TrofimovGennady T SukhikhPublished in: Molecular genetics & genomic medicine (2020)
The presented case is the first case of PWS described in detail, which was suspected by NIPS results. It demonstrates that the choice of confirmation methods concerning the time needed is crucial for the right diagnosis. We suppose that prenatal testing of UPD is essential for chromosome regions, which play a key role in the appearance of various gene-imprinting failure syndromes like PWS or AS.